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Answer from 3 documents

On the first day you record that the employee is unfit for work and how long they expect to be away, and nothing else. The employer period of sixteen calendar days starts that day, and self-certification covers up to four spells in a rolling year.

A diagnosis is not the employer's to ask for. The absence and its expected length are.
A new absence within sixteen days of the last one continues the same employer period rather than starting a new one.
The follow-up plan is due at four weeks, and the first day's record is what it is written from.

Recommended approach

Have one short conversation in private before the first day back, and keep it to how the work can be arranged.
Agree one first step that makes the coming week workable — hours, tasks or place — rather than settling everything at once.
Write what you agreed into the follow-up plan, and set the date the two of you look at it again.

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Update the follow-up plan with what you agree

Read the sources

Sick leave: what the employer must do on the first daySelf-certified sick leave: four spells, twenty-four daysThe employer period: the first sixteen calendar days

Guidance on the law as it stands, not advice on your case. Ring an adviser for that.

Answer from 3 documents

A diagnosis is not the employer's to ask for. The absence and its expected length are.
A new absence within sixteen days of the last one continues the same employer period rather than starting a new one.
The follow-up plan is due at four weeks, and the first day's record is what it is written from.

Recommended approach

Have one short conversation in private before the first day back, and keep it to how the work can be arranged.
Agree one first step that makes the coming week workable — hours, tasks or place — rather than settling everything at once.
Write what you agreed into the follow-up plan, and set the date the two of you look at it again.

Next steps

Book the return-to-work conversation

Update the follow-up plan with what you agree

Read the sources

Sick leave: what the employer must do on the first daySelf-certified sick leave: four spells, twenty-four daysThe employer period: the first sixteen calendar days

Guidance on the law as it stands, not advice on your case. Ring an adviser for that.

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On the first day you record two things: that the employee is unfit for work, and how long they expect to be away. The sixteen-day employer period starts that day, and self-certification covers it unless the employee has used up their spells. Nothing else is yours to ask for yet.

Guidance on the law as it stands, not advice on a particular case. Ring an adviser for that.

In short

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