Sick Notes News Today

Employment lawyer discusses issues surrounding workers on medical leave, and more

Fake sick notes are being sold online for as little as £25 as the number of people claiming to be too unwell to work surges to record levels.

“We can’t allow fraudsters to exploit the natural compassion and generosity of the British people,” said Rishi Sunak last week, with a stomp of his Adidas Sambas and a stunning lack of self-awareness. For Sunak wasn’t referring to allegations that Mark Menzies, one of his MPs, had persuaded a hard-working party supporter to cash out thousands of pounds to pay some “bad people”, but to new plans to tackle “sick note culture”. The Government ...

It’s not an honour to which any nation would aspire but Britain can now boast of being the sick note capital of the West.

Employers can request doctor’s note after 3 consecutive days of illness

THE longest ever running festival in Barrow is returning for its 11th edition with dozens of artists.

Her novels First Love and My Phantoms work a kind of magic, making stuck relationships at once believably maddening and oddly addictive. 

Employees in Germany took more days of sick leave in the first half of 2022 than ever before, according to new figures from Techniker Krankenkasse (TK).

YouTube’s top 10 physician influencers. From PR Week

With Sonia Faleiro, Esther Freud, Gwendoline Riley and Shyama Perera This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers are sent a link in advance giving access and can watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. The bond between mothers and daughters is explored afresh by a panel of celebrated authors whose new works illuminate this relationship and its framing in society.   Gwendoline Riley is the author of My Phantoms, as well as First Love, which was short...