---
title: "Sick Leave"
url: https://call-in-sick.com/category-sick-leave
description: "Entries on entitlement, notification, certification and the paperwork that surrounds an absence."
published: 2026-09-06
updated: 2026-09-06
---

# Sick Leave

Published 2026-09-06

Entries on entitlement, notification, certification and the paperwork that surrounds an absence. 7 entries

### Thursday20 August 2020

#### [Why sick leave exists at all](https://call-in-sick.com/why-sick-leave-exists)

Sick leave looks like a small administrative convenience until you ask where it came from. Nothing about the working week makes it inevitable.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Sick Leave](https://call-in-sick.com/category-sick-leave) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/why-sick-leave-exists)

### Tuesday14 July 2020

#### [What a sick note actually is](https://call-in-sick.com/what-a-sick-note-actually-is)

The sick note is one of the most misunderstood documents in working life. People treat it as a verdict on whether they were really ill. It is nothing of the kind.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Sick Leave](https://call-in-sick.com/category-sick-leave) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/what-a-sick-note-actually-is)

### Thursday25 June 2020

#### [A short history of paid sick leave](https://call-in-sick.com/a-short-history-of-paid-sick-leave)

Paid sick leave was not invented by governments or by employers. In most industrial countries it began with workers paying each other.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Sick Leave](https://call-in-sick.com/category-sick-leave) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/a-short-history-of-paid-sick-leave)

### Thursday27 February 2020

#### [Caring days and the school absence note](https://call-in-sick.com/caring-days-and-the-school-absence-note)

A large share of what gets recorded as sick leave is not the employee's illness at all. It is somebody else's: a child sent home from school, a parent after a fall, a partner who cannot be left alone for a day.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Sick Leave](https://call-in-sick.com/category-sick-leave) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/caring-days-and-the-school-absence-note)

### Monday10 February 2020

#### [How small teams cover an absence](https://call-in-sick.com/how-small-teams-cover-an-absence)

In a team of four, one absence is a quarter of the capacity and usually the whole of some particular capability.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Sick Leave](https://call-in-sick.com/category-sick-leave) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/how-small-teams-cover-an-absence)

### Thursday9 January 2020

#### [Seasonal illness and the office calendar](https://call-in-sick.com/seasonal-illness-and-the-office-calendar)

Absence is not evenly distributed through the year, and any organisation with a few years of records can see its own shape.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Sick Leave](https://call-in-sick.com/category-sick-leave) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/seasonal-illness-and-the-office-calendar)

### Thursday12 December 2019

#### [Sick leave in other countries](https://call-in-sick.com/sick-leave-in-other-countries)

Sick pay looks natural from inside whichever system you grew up with, and comparing systems is the quickest way to see how many arbitrary choices are buried in it.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Sick Leave](https://call-in-sick.com/category-sick-leave) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/sick-leave-in-other-countries)