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2022-12-31T17:09:54.502Z


Can your supervisor contact you by phone despite being sick? Created: 12/31/2022, 6:00 p.m By: Anne Hund If you are absent from work because of illness, you have to expect your boss to contact you in some cases. If you are on sick leave at work, you should rest well in order to get well again. However, even when reporting sick, you should make sure that you inform your superior or the responsi


Can your supervisor contact you by phone despite being sick?

Created: 12/31/2022, 6:00 p.m

By: Anne Hund

If you are absent from work because of illness, you have to expect your boss to contact you in some cases.

If you are on sick leave at work, you should rest well in order to get well again.

However, even when reporting sick, you should make sure that you inform your superior or the responsible colleagues without delay about how long you are likely to be absent.

Here you can find out what else you need to bear in mind when it comes to the formalities of reporting sick.

In addition, your boss has to organize a replacement for you - so when you call in sick, you should definitely point out which tasks have to be completed in your absence.

Can your supervisor contact you by phone despite being sick?

If you have done all this as required, it could still happen in one case or another that your manager contacts you during your absence.

Maybe he's just calling you to wish you a speedy recovery, which you can't blame him for.

Or he has a specific question for you about work.

Is he allowed to do that?

Normally, an employee is not obliged to be available for the company in the event of illness, as the content.de portal

informed

in an article on exactly that question.

But: If, for example, urgent information is needed that only this employee has, the manager can call and get this information.

Even if you're on sick leave, expect someone from work to reach out to you.

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Does the business phone call count as overtime?

In most cases, the collective agreement, the employment contract or the internal agreements of the company contain regulations that state whether and to what extent an employee should be available for the company outside of working hours.

“The professional phone call is then counted as overtime.

This time must be compensated or paid for," says the earlier article on

content.de

on the labor law issue.

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Job experts: Bosses should only contact sick employees in urgent cases

According to the experts, however, supervisors should refrain from calling sick employees unless there is an emergency.

"The focus is on recovery and, depending on the illness, this can be disrupted by the work required," says the article.

"As long as operations can continue without this employee, there is no reason for telephone contact."

Source: merkur

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