Doctors note for Contractors

[original PM]

as the above all say no you do not need to provide one as your are not their employee.

If you are running your own limited then they could state that the support provided by your limited company during the past week was not acceptable and may constitute a breach of contract as your co failed to provide a suitable replacement (assuming you have an ROS clause in the contract).

Your co may then need to provide evidence that their employee (e.g. you) was actually ill (in the form of a doctors note) and also that your co made a resonable attempt to source a suitable replacement. The client may also look for documetation or evidence of the communications which passed between your co and them keep them informed of the situation and a likely end date to your co's inabaility to provide support/service at the levels agreed in the contract.

Realistically I imagine the client co are looking for reassurances that you were genuinely ill and not simply having a bit of a jolly.

[Mich the Tester]

Sick for a couple of days is not flu!

I was sick all weekend too, and missed a couple of planned days off.

[realityhack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EElqrgk4N0

[bman]

I naturally hate all this rubbish which im sure like you is one of the reasons i became a contractor. Normally i would tell em to go jump but before I make that phone call i'm concerned whether to just jump through the hoops as I have a good relationship with this agency and they seem to be the only ones right now with a decent next role.

Just wondering if I should play it easy this time for the sake of keeping em sweet to get this next contract (contract finishing in 4 weeks) or whether to stick to my guns and fight it out

[Cyberman]

I naturally hate all this rubbish which im sure like you is one of the reasons i became a contractor. Normally i would tell em to go jump but before I make that phone call i'm concerned whether to just jump through the hoops as I have a good relationship with this agency and they seem to be the only ones right now with a decent next role.

Just wondering if I should play it easy this time for the sake of keeping em sweet to get this next contract (contract finishing in 4 weeks) or whether to stick to my guns and fight it out

Keep them sweet cos you just do not know where the next contract will come from, but if you are off sick then you should have kept them informed anyway.

[gingerjedi]

Realistically I imagine the client co are looking for reassurances that you were genuinely ill and not simply having a bit of a jolly.

Realistically the HR department don't know their arse from their elbow, the reason they ask for doctor’s note is so they can claim the statutory sick pay back from the government for the permy employees that they still pay regardless.

The only reason you may need to provide one is to claim statutory sick pay for yourself from the government as I believe you're entitled to do? (I am often wrong??), nothing to do with the client.

[swamp]

Tell them: "OK I'll see about getting a note". Then fob them off with excuses, like you're not registered with a new doctor since you moved house... Tactfully remind them you're a contractor. They'll soon get bored and go away.

[Chugnut]

Mutter "Ok I'll get your note. I just hope I haven't got the highly contagious airborne nob rot virus doing the rounds at the moment". Then sneeze in his face.

Stumble off, furiously scratching your plums.

That's the last you'll hear about that note. I've used this infallible approach myself many times.

[Bagpuss]

Tell them you can't get a doctors note but you can get one from your Mum

[MPwannadecentincome]

I naturally hate all this rubbish which im sure like you is one of the reasons i became a contractor. Normally i would tell em to go jump but before I make that phone call i'm concerned whether to just jump through the hoops as I have a good relationship with this agency and they seem to be the only ones right now with a decent next role.

Just wondering if I should play it easy this time for the sake of keeping em sweet to get this next contract (contract finishing in 4 weeks) or whether to stick to my guns and fight it out

hey look at the bright side if you get a sick note you can claim Statutory Sick Pay for yourself as an employee - which is what £20 or so?!