In a recent Labour Appeal Court judgment, the Court confirmed what most, if not everyone, accept as common sense: forging a sick note and providing it to your employer constitutes serious misconduct.
A medical certificate produced by an employee to justify a period of absence constitutes hearsay evidence, which employers are entitled to challenge. That challenge shifts the onus to employees to prove indisposition.
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