“There are no special features for registering sick leave on holidays, weekends or working days.
Therefore, there is no need to wait until the first working day to call a doctor, receive the necessary recommendations for treatment and issue a certificate of incapacity for work.
There is also no need to invent a wheel together with the therapist who came to you and persuade him to open a sick leave at a later date,” the specialist noted.
She emphasized that the law clearly defines the periods when temporary disability benefits are not awarded.
Weekends and non-working holidays are not included in this list, which means they are subject to payment, RT’s interlocutor recalled.
“So, if an employee gets sick on February 23 (a holiday), he will be paid for all days of sick leave, including February 23 and the weekend of February 24 and 25 (Saturday and Sunday),” Weinberg explained.
The situation was the same with the past long New Year holidays, the lawyer added.
“If the certificate of incapacity for work was opened on the first day of the new year, then from January 1 to January 9, 2024, nine days are paid.
That is, you can take sick leave from January 1st or not open it until the end of the weekend.
And if by the 9th it becomes clear that you are still sick, then you can call a doctor and issue a certificate of temporary incapacity for work,” concluded the public figure.
Earlier, Weinberg told RT in a conversation how to distinguish a debt collector from a fraudster.