Is it legal (UK) for a company to suggest an employee has taken a sicky?
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Is it legal (UK) for a company to suggest an employee has taken a sicky?
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On return to work a colleague of mine was taken into an office and had it suggested to them that it was too much of a coincidence that they were sick 1 day after handing in their 4 weeks notice. Can a company do this?
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PinHead
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a company can suggest what it likes there is no law against that however it cant withold pay without proof and a person can self cert for a week off sick |
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Rachel
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Yes you can say what you like. If I was an employer and I thought someone was taking sickys then I would hope that I could question my employee about it. I pay their wages after all |
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Marky
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Yes.
They can put this to him, but he/she can dispute it. It is up to the company to prove it, but they can ask for a doctors note if its 3 days.
Without any proof nothing should be put on their file. |
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Marvin the pedantic martian
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As far as I'm aware, a company that took that position in order to withold pay would be on rather shaky ground unless they had some hard evidence (like your colleague being caught by a member of management doing backflips when he was off due to a bad back or similar). Not to mention that they could leave themselves open to have a claim of harassment if they openly suggested this in a way to intimidate them.
In short, providing that your colleague stuck to his guns, there isn't a damn thing that your company can do about it. Even if he had been taking a "sickie". |
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lisa B
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You can suggest it...but if you can't prove it then there is nothing you can about it... |
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Cari
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Of course they can suggest it, but what are they going to do?
A girl at my work decided to call in sick for the entire last week of her four-week notice. Everyone knew she was faking it, but there's nothing they could do. |
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Helen S
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Yes, if they have sufficient grounds for suspecting so, and they do not need to pay either. |
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