sick note

noun [C] UK HR, WORKPLACE

Definition

› a letter from a doctor to your employer that says that you are too ill to work: 22 million sick notes are requested in the UK each year. write/issue a sick note

(Definition of sick note noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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