Fit Notes - New Law in 2010

Update 65 - Today the familiar ‘sick note’ that GPs supply to employees has been abolished. It is replaced with the new ‘fit note’

Basically, a fit note issued by a GP can say one of two things:

• the employee is unfit for work; or
• the employee may be fit for work.

the change has direct impact on Statutory Sick Pay paid by employers to employess.

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