i've been signed off due to me snapping my medial ligament.
got an operation in 2 weeks.
will have to speak to work again and ask them nicely to pay me and sort some work out.
can't live off stale bread and pretend butter :evil:
If its purely physical then offer to work from home.....I cant see anything to stop you doing that....there is no law to stop it anyway at least not on a short term basis anyway.
Even if they say no or don't think it will work with you doing it from home, you have offered and they will surely look kindly on that.
Like said above though, most employers have a standard sickness policy in place (be in any staff manual or handbook) and you'll be governed by that which will most likely be statutory pay for up to two weeks and after that at their own discretion.
My place has a strange scheme where they pay you not to be off sick!!!
We have 5 paid sick days a year (so if your off for up to five days your paid in full) and after that any sick days taken (for whatever reason) are unpaid (barring any compasionate leave etc granted by the boss).
at the end of the year for every day you havent taken off sick, you get an extra days holiday the next year... (doesnt roll over though just one yearly) and after every two months of not being ill you get a cheque for being present every day!!! so in February you'd get £20 then April you get another for £40 and it goes up every 2 months until the end of the year one would be £120 (total of £420).
seems daft but my point is that all companies can have their own policies on sickness as ours do - ours is just that strange as we had a big problem with staff sickness and we soon found that as money ruled most people in the office, this technique actually saved us money based on lost days through sickness (864 in total for 2005!!) anyway i'm rambling now.......sorry!
