Employee Beware! Next time you think of having a sick day arm yourself with this information.
Twice as many medical certificates are being written as a decade ago to meet employers’ demands, a survey has found.

The demand for sick notes is so great that employees will soon be able to get them from their local chemist.

A major study of the way GPs use their time has found patients made 800,000 more requests for “administration procedures” – most often medical certificates – in 2006-07 compared with 1998-99.

About one in 60 patients visited their doctor primarily to get a certificate, compared with about one in 120 nine years ago, the report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found.

Now there’s some food for thought!
Whatever happened to the trustworthy employee and transparency within a business?
So maybe next time you feel like you have “earnt� a sickie or had a really drinking session the night before, you might have gotten yourself into a difficult situation.
So we are asking have you had any horror sickie stories?
Ever been sick with the cold taken a day to rest only to come back to work with your employer demanding a doctors certificate?

These days are long gone.

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