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Fit Notes
From 6 April 2010 medical certficates which employees presented if they were off work for more than 7 days have been replaced with a 'FIT NOTE.'  The form (Yellow - Med 10) will be used by GP's and other practitioners are required to advise whether an employee is:
 
  • Unfit for work, or
  • may be fit for work with some restrictions.

 

It has tick boxes and space for comments by the medical practitioner to suggest/explain the type of restrictions/adjustments that you should consider to get your employees back to work as soon as practical without causing detriment to their recovery. The tick boxes are:
 
  •  Phased return to work
  • Altered Hours
  • Amended duties (extra guidance should be provided by the GP) 
  • Workplace adaptations
 
There is no longer a form which signs an employee back to work.
Right to Request Time Off for Training
From 6 April if you have more than 250 employees, employees with more than 26 weeks continuous service have a legal right to request time of for training or study and you must seriously consider any such request. 
 
If you get a request you must hold a meeting within 28 days and you can only refuse the request if there are good business reasons. 
 
There is no legal obligation for you to:
 
a) pay for the training, or to
b) pay the employee during the time they are absent to do the training.
 
However before you deicde not pay, do consider the benefits of the training to yourself, your business as well as the individual and company morale.
 
 
The Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010
Fathers or partners of mothers or adopters, may take paternity leave of up to 26 weeks in the first year of their child’s life or the first year after the child’s placement for adoption, where a number of requirements are satisfied, including that the mother or adopter has returned to work.
 
The additional paternity leave has effect in relation to children whose expected week of birth is on or after 3 April 2011.
 
Paternity Pay
The weekly rate of payment of additional statutory paternity pay is the lesser of £124.88 and 90% of the employee’s normal weekly earnings.