In the wet and cold Season of the year colds and influenza are more frequent. The waiting room at the doctor’s fill, while the offices partially empty. However, as employees should do when you Wake up in the morning scrape with a fever and Neck? You must not during working hours for the doctor to examine? Or you should file for a vacation day?
“Who is sick, would go to the doctor during working hours,” explains Heiko Hecht, a specialist lawyer for labour law in Hamburg. A prerequisite for this is an “acute Suffering” that affected the ability to work or even makes it impossible. Pain, fever, dizziness, but also psychological emergency situations can limit the ability to work strongly, and a trip to the doctor justify. Important: it is imperative that the supervisor in advance about the doctor’s appointment.
Also investigations ordered by the doctor and from a medical point of view, only at certain times, may be done during working hours – for example, a Blood draw in the morning hours, when the Patient is still sober. “Employees of this examination is not voluntary, it is medically necessary,” says pike.
A cold is caused by cold no. Viruses trigger a cold or the flu. But: “When the body fights a the beginning of the end of the infection and freezes, this can be the famous icing on the cake,” says Martin Scherer, Director of the Institute for General medicine at the University hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf. There is also the Hypothesis that the nasopharyngeal mucous membrane in the cold, more vulnerable to virus infections, but it is not scientifically proven.
Tricky it is, if the Suffering has to be in the foreseeable future are treated, but at the Moment not acute. The classic case: During the lunch break a piece of the filling breaks off. “Seal is a pain in the broken, is a acute Suffer,” explains Heiko Hecht. The seal is prepared, otherwise, no problems, he advises to put the dentist appointment in the Morning or Abenstunden – before or after the actual working hours.
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Also General check-up appointments, routine checks or the annual dental cleaning should not be used during working hours done, says Heiko Hecht. “I urge you to make these appointments in the holidays or in the evening hours, also, to keep the peace in the workplace and among colleagues.”
He would recommend the employee to the doctor’s appointment in the case of acute Suffering, attest to? “Safe is safe”, says Heiko Hecht. The probative value of a medical certificate of incapacity for Work was “unwavering”, and ultimately decisive, if it is going to distinguish the ability to work from incapacity for work.
