if you are off due to sickness and then provided you have compliant with any obligations in

your contract, you should get either the sick payment set out in the contract which might

be full pay or half pay for a period of time, or if you've been absent for enough days to

fill the waiting days, you would be eligible for statutory sick pay.

Does an employer have to pay full pay during times of sickness?

The company doesnt have to full pay unless it's in the contract that they have to pay

you full pay and you've complied with any obligations that you have to do in your contract

in order to get that, that might be notifying them of your absence within a period of time

or providing self-certification sicknotes. What proof of sickness does an employee need

to provide? Generally the first five or seven days, normally

its five for working week, your only have to provide self-certification form, after

that your employee may require you to provide a MED3 form from your GP and there's a sick

note although its actually called a fit note these days and they may also require

other evidence in certain circumstances. Can an employee self-certify their sickness?

You don't generally need to provide a fit note from your GP until you have been off

for more than seven days and you may go to doctor early and you may have one but you're

not generally required to do so. You can generally self-certify for the first 5 days or 7 days

depending on what the requirements are of your contract.