Sickness absence from one job - can you work in another job?

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Hi

looking for some advice re above. Have 2 jobs, different employers and one job is causing me stress due to being redeployed and i have phoned in sick.

I have approached union with my concerns initially over three weeks ago and they said to give it time. I have trialled job now for one month and in that time has not had a workstation. I have sit wherever is free. The environment is fraught and no one speaks or offers to help. I have not been given any access to gh building via a key fob and I have decided it's not working. Called in sick this week and union have approaches management re a transfer.

My point is my other job is fine and I don't want to jeopordise it. So can you be signed off sick in one job and work another?

I'll go with no.

You really need to get to the bottom of the issue why you are getting stressed without just hiding from them by taking time off and continuing with the other work.

If your genuinely too stressed to work then you should be relaxing.

Besides after a week you'll need a doctor to sign you off and unless your showing proper signs of stress i.e. just not a dislike to your new role then don't expect to be signed off.

I reckon no.

If you sign off 'sick', it means you cannot work at all due to your sickness. I think you need to deal with the first job, rather than avoid it.

Hi,

No you cannot work in a 2nd job whilst signed off sick in the other. In most companies this would be considered gross misconduct and you would lose the job (and possibly have to pay back sick pay money - but I'm not sure about that).

Sorry.

Yes you can, but you need to be careful. You should be able to demonstrate that your second job offsets the stress caused by your first, and is in a completely different environment.

Hi thanks for all the answers. I think I need to meet with hr/union for the redeployed job and see about getting issues resolved once and for all. I am making an appointment with gp but it's not till next week and I have self certified myself so don't need a doctor's line till after a week.

Meanwhile I can still go to my other job as haven't yet got signed off by a doctor iyswim? I hope to have issue resolved by time I am due to go back to redeloyed job ie via transfer to post, hand in my notice or whatever outcome gp says if I get an appointment before then.

You are on very dangerous ground to self-certify yourself sick in one job but not another, even (or shall I say especially ) in this interim period before you see the GP.

If you are caught out on a sickie for just one day, whether or not GP certification is required, that is a serious HR issue.

The issue is not whether GP certification is required. The issue is on each and every day you are signed off sick, you are truly too ill to perform the first job but (conveniently and counterintuitively) able to perform the second.

What does your body and your conscience tell you? You will have an uphill battle trying to justify this. I would say do it only if you can afford to lose the second job.

Hi it's all sorted now and I take on board last post. I will have recovered by Monday and fit for work in my redeployed post as they have offered me a transfer Imminently away from the environment which was stressing me both for work and underlying personal reasons I won't go into.

Thanks for all the replies.