Sickness notification procedure
Ask your employer about any specific schemes with regard to time, contact and formalities. If you are sick, you (generally) have to provide the insurance company with a doctor's certificate by the second day. If you do this later, statutory sick pay will only be paid from that date. The company's rules of procedure will describe this procedure clearly.
This period is different in the case of an industrial accident, where the employee or his family is allowed a period of two weeks in which to notify the employer.
Entitlement to benefit will depend on the individual contract, on whether the worker is in a probationary period and on how long the employment contract has been in force. The same applies to student work contracts and to temporary work contracts.
As a rule, maternity leave lasts 15 weeks. Leave taken before the birth is known as ante-natal leave; the leave that begins on the day of the birth is known as post-natal leave. Within this 15-week period, the pregnant employee must cease all work from the seventh day before the expected date of delivery until the end of an eight-week period beginning on the day of the birth. To this end she must contact her mutual benefit association.
In some cases the child's father can also take some of the maternity leave.
Where strikes are concerned, employees who fail to arrive at work or arrive late due to a strike are guaranteed their daily wage, provided the delay or absence is due to a cause encountered on the way to work and which was beyond the employee's control.
Where union-approved strikes are concerned, compensation for lost earnings is paid to employees who are union members.
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Text last edited on: 08/2006
Source: European Union
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