Sick leave during vacation without pay in 2021

13.06.2019

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There are forced situations when you have to take a vacation without pay. Sometimes during such a period of time an employee of the organization may become ill. Questions arise: will sick leave be paid for during vacation at your own expense, what part of the money will be transferred and how this is confirmed by law. The answers will be revealed in this article.

Vacation at your own expense: definition of the concept

Leave at your own expense is not paid, but gives the employee a guarantee of maintaining his job. Unlike paid rest, time off without pay is issued at the request of the employee. The time is negotiated separately with the manager.

It is provided after obtaining the employer’s consent strictly for valid reasons. In some organizations, conditions for recreation at one’s own expense are described in the collective agreement. Such vacations are sometimes paid if they last no more than the number of days established by local regulations.

To take time off without pay, you will need to submit an application indicating the days and reasons for absence. Then go to your boss or director, get approval and signature. If an employee decides to leave early and begin his duties, by decision of management, an order is issued to change the validity period of the application.

It is important to know! There are exceptions when an employer cannot refuse to provide time off. Such special occasions include the day of marriage, the birth of a son or daughter, or the death of relatives. Sometimes the collective agreement includes employee anniversaries among such reasons.

Types of vacations

Any working person has the right to rest. This is indicated in a separate chapter 19 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. There are three main types of vacation, including two annual ones: main and additional, as well as days taken at one’s own expense. Moreover, the first two types are paid. The amount of vacation money accrued depends directly on the average earnings and the number of vacation days taken.

The main vacation lasts 28 calendar days (Article 115 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). The length of the additional one is determined by the nature of the work performed, its danger and harmful conditions. Usually their pay and number of days are fixed in the collective agreement. The duration of additional leave is at least 3 days. The upper limit of such rest is not limited in any way by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. For example, for teaching staff of schools, annual leave has been extended to 56 days, and for preschool institutions - to 42.

Labor Code of the Russian Federation dated December 30, 2001 N 197-FZ. Article 115

The number of days that an employee takes without accruing wages for them is agreed upon with the administration. According to Article 128 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, you can arrange vacation days without pay:

• to all citizens who continue to work and have reached retirement age. The administration is obliged to provide them with at least 2 weeks;
• close relatives of military personnel who died in the performance of their duties or as a result of injuries. The employer must also issue 2 weeks of leave for parents and wives;
• employees with disabilities. At their request, they are granted leave without pay for up to 60 days during the year;
• to all employees. In connection with joyful events: a wedding or the birth of children, as well as for a sad occasion - the funeral of a loved one - you can get up to 5 vacation days.

At the discretion of the administration, depending on other circumstances, the employee may also have the opportunity to take advantage of the vacation at his own expense.

Sample application for leave without pay

It is worth paying attention to the fact that the number of personal days off received per year affects the calculation of annual leave. If more than 14 such days are accumulated in a year, then all subsequent days will be excluded from the calculation of annual leave (Article 121 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). That is why, when applying for administrative leave for a period of more than a week, you should write several applications so that weekends are not included in the calculation. For example, you need a vacation for 2 weeks: from February 4 to February 17, 2021. 2 applications are drawn up, which indicate only working days: from February 4 to 8 and from February 11 to 15. In this case, the number of days at your own expense will be only 10, not 14.

Important! Leave without pay also includes the time a mother cares for a child under 3 years of age. Consequently, sick leave is not issued for this period.

Labor Code of the Russian Federation dated December 30, 2001 N 197-FZ. Article 121

Sick leave during unpaid leave

If a citizen had health problems during unpaid leave, he has every reason to go to the hospital. Sick leave on unpaid leave is not recorded. If the illness lasts longer than the period of time off, the supporting document is paid by the organization from the date the employee returns to work, according to the application.

The employer is obliged to pay money under the certificate of incapacity for work only after the employee has completed his vacation days without pay. During time off without pay, the boss is not responsible for his employee.

Payments will not be made

If a worker falls ill on vacation, the organization does not compensate for sick leave at its own expense. This point is described in detail in Article 9 of Federal Law No. 255, which addresses the issue of compulsory insurance. In accordance with this rule, when registering sick leave during leave without pay, the employer does not undertake to pay the employee for these days. The law does not affect planned vacations. If the employee is diagnosed as ill during the entire period of such leave, days of incapacity for work can be compensated.

Advice! You can’t count on extending vacation days at your own expense in case of illness. Payment will not be made if the time of illness coincides with the end of the leave or the employee was suspended from his activities without pay, as well as after dismissal.

Payment for sick leave will be

You can only count on payments if the person did not have time to recover during the vacation. The hospital will issue a certificate of incapacity for work, in which the date will begin from the first day of return to work. This situation is disclosed in detail in Article 5 of Federal Law No. 255.

Article 22 of the labor legislation specifies a list of vacations, at the end of which days of incapacity in case of illness continue and the sheet is issued under the following conditions:

• at the expense of the employee without payment;
• women during pregnancy and childbirth;
• persons caring for a child up to the age of three years.

Payment is calculated from the end of the vacation period. The organization does not pay for sick days that fall on vacation, since at that moment it was not responsible for the employee.

Partial payment

Partial payment can be received in the manner described above if the illness continues after the end of the vacation days. In this case, days will be paid starting from the next day after the end of leave without pay. To do this, you need to warn your boss, open a sick leave from the day you return from leave, undergo treatment, close it with your attending physician and submit a certificate of incapacity for work to the accounting department.

For example, an employee of a construction company had unpaid leave from March 3 to March 10. He was on sick leave from March 6 to March 15. At the hospital, he warned that he was on leave without being paid and they opened a leave sheet for him on the 11th of the month. He came to work and provided a sheet according to which he was paid for days of incapacity from March 11 to 15.

Full payment

An employee has the right to receive full compensation for days of incapacity for work in case of early termination of leave without pay. After this you can go on sick leave. However, this method is valid with the consent of the employer, who will have to conclude an order for early exit from leave without pay.

For example, an employee decided to take days from July 19 to July 29. He became ill on July 23. In this case, if management allows you to go to work on July 23, days of incapacity for work will be paid in full.

Attention! If a person took a vacation at his own expense, but at the same time he works part-time in another organization, then the certificate of incapacity for work can be attributed to this place. At additional work, the employee will be required to draw up documents for full payment of the sheet.

Is it possible to get sick leave if you get sick during study leave?

Unfortunately no. The employer will not pay for days of incapacity for work falling during the period of study leave (clause 1, part 1, article 9 of Law No. 255-FZ). The fact is that an employee’s illness during study leave does not lead to loss of earnings, that is, an insured event does not occur. The employee's days of incapacity for work before and after study leave must be paid as usual.

Study leave is paid during sick leave in the usual manner: in the amount of average earnings.

Sick leave on regular leave

A certificate of temporary incapacity for work will be compulsorily compensated in full if it falls during the planned annual leave. The supporting medical document is paid based on the salary for the past two years. Article 12, Part 1 of Federal Law No. 255 specifies the requirements for registration.

To calculate wages for the period of absence, the worker must bring a sheet no later than six months from the date of termination of the sick leave. Sick leave during vacation is issued if an employee is ill; if it is necessary to care for loved ones, the document cannot be obtained. In this case, the employee is entitled to an extension of vacation by the number of days spent on sick leave.

Vacation pay

If a person gets sick or injured while on vacation, it is important to know whether he will be paid sick leave or not. First of all, it depends on what kind of vacation the sick employee was on.

Sick leave received during any annual leave must be paid according to the law. The first 3 days are compensated by the employer himself, all subsequent days are compensated from the Social Insurance Fund, to which monthly deductions are made from the accrued amount of earnings of each employee (2.9%). The amount of payment for sick days is determined by the average salary calculated for the last 2 years of work (Government Decree No. 375 of June 15, 2007). If the length of service is insignificant (less than 5 years), then 60% of this earnings will be accrued for days of incapacity for work. If the duration of work is from 5 to 8 years, 80% is paid. Only if the employee has been on the staff of the enterprise for more than 8 years, the accounting department calculates the amount on the certificate of incapacity for work in the amount of 100% of the average payment.

Important! All vacation days that coincide with an officially registered illness must be taken into account.

If a person gets sick while on vacation, sick leave must be paid

There are 2 options:

1. The employee continues to complete his deadline without drawing up any additional papers.
2. An employee, having decided to go to work earlier than expected, draws up a statement in which he indicates the number of days remaining from this vacation. Subsequently, they should be provided to him so that he can continue his interrupted vacation.

Vacation at your own expense

The situation is completely different with sick leave received during days taken at one’s own expense. According to Federal Law No. 255 of December 29, 2006, Article 9, Clause 1.1, it is impossible to receive payment based on a document issued by a medical worker evidencing a disease. This position has its own explanation. A sick person, while on unpaid leave, does not bring any income to his enterprise during these days. Consequently, there are no contributions to the Social Insurance Fund, from which sick leave is paid, for a specific person. This means that the employee cannot count on paid sick leave. In addition, such a document should not be issued while the employee is on administrative leave. Typically, sick leave is issued due to the patient’s ignorance of the laws. There is no particular problem in this. An illness document should only be issued from the time the employee is due to start work.

If a person is on unpaid leave, then sick leave will not be paid

It is possible to solve the problem of paying for such sick leave. Since the leave without pay was issued in agreement with the administration, you can try to resolve the issue of revising the received number of days to less, that is, before the start of the date of issuance of the certificate of incapacity for work. You should write an application for termination of previously received administrative leave. The employer has no right to interfere with such a decision.

In a situation where sick leave was started during vacation, but the employee did not have time to recover before its end, the days after the vacation taken at his own expense must be paid in accordance with the rules established by law.

Example: An employee took 5 days leave without pay for the funeral of a loved one from July 5 to July 9, but from July 7 he fell ill. According to the rules, sick leave can be issued only from July 10, but even if the document is provided at the clinic from July 7, the company’s accounting department will make payment only from the end of such leave.

Not only during administrative leave, sick time is not counted. The reasons for refusal to pay for sick leave may be the following, presented in the table.

Additional Information

If a citizen has taken leave at his own expense from his main job, but is employed part-time in another, then the sick leave will be fully paid for him in the additional position.

Read useful information about the rules for issuing sick leave, as well as the registration procedure and issuance deadlines, in our new article.

When a mother is on maternity leave to care for a child under 3 years of age, she is not entitled to pay for sick days. But if she is studying and has left for the exam, and the child is accompanied by a father or grandmother who works, then in this case the issued sick leave should be paid on a general basis as for caring for a sick child.

While on administrative leave, you should know that sick leave taken during this time cannot be paid according to the law. This is explained by the fact that during this time there are no contributions to the Social Insurance Fund for this employee. You can only try to re-issue the application with the permission of the employer, adjusting it for sick days.

Is it possible to take a ballot if you are on leave without pay?

Medical care in the Russian Federation is provided to all citizens, regardless of whether they have a job or not. If a person gets sick or injured, he has every right to seek medical help.

For working citizens, such visits are accompanied by the issuance of a sick leave certificate, which is the basis for absenteeism from work and payment for missed days. If an employee took a vacation at his own expense and fell ill during this period, he can also go to the hospital.

But you cannot count on getting your ballot completed during days taken without pay . In accordance with paragraph 22 of Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development No. 624n dated June 29, 2011, a certificate of incapacity for work is not opened during vacation at one’s own expense. If, at the end of the taken time off, the employee still has not recovered, a ballot is opened for him on the first working day.

It so happened that you opened a sick leave during your vacation. Let's figure out together how the payment for the bill and the accrual of vacation pay in this case occurs, whether it is possible to extend or postpone vacation days, and also what are the features of paying for the ballot during study leave.

Registration of a certificate of incapacity for work

Sick leave during unpaid leave or during other working and non-working periods must be formalized according to established standards. To obtain it, you should contact medical institutions of state or non-state ownership, which have a license to provide treatment, and accordingly have the right to issue bulletins.

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A ballot form is a document that has a unique barcode, number and numerous degrees of protection. All these measures help to avoid the issuance of fake documents. Often, sick leave is issued by therapists who receive forms for reporting.

In addition to strict accountability for sick leave certificates, the doctor must also be able to correctly draw up and fill it out. Instructions for registration are printed on the back of the form itself.

When filling out, it is important to consider the following nuances:

1. Should be written in block letters.
2. The letters must not extend beyond the cell.
3. One cell can only contain one letter or number.
4. Each field has its own unique meaning, and it is prohibited to randomly enter inappropriate information into them.
5. When making notes about the onset of illness, days of visit and closing the form, the doctor must put his full name and signature and affix everything with his seal.
6. After the ballot is closed, it is registered in the general issuing ledger and the seal of the medical institution is affixed.

Making even one mistake or typo in the form makes it invalid and requires either an official correction or a complete replacement of the document.

An example of calculating sick leave based on wages for 2 years:

From May 1, 2021 The Government of the Russian Federation adopted a resolution equating the subsistence level to the minimum wage, which significantly affected the payment of various types of benefits, as well as the calculation of sick leave.

Ivanov V.P. Payment for sick leave is due for the period from February 1 to February 9, 2021 (9 calendar days). Vladimir’s work experience is 9 years and is paid 100%. During the period of work in 2021. he received a salary of 540,000 rubles, with a salary of 45,000. In 2021, he earned 600,000 rubles.

We will determine the amount of temporary disability benefits.

1. For 2021: 540,000 rubles.

For 2021: 600,000 rubles.

For 2021 and 2021 All earnings in full are taken into account, since the employee was not sick and did not go on vacation.

The payment amounts that should be included in the calculation will be:

540,000 + 6,000,000 rub. = 1,140,000 rub.

1. Let's calculate the average daily earnings:

1,140,000/730 = 1,561.54 rubles.

1. Since the employee was sick for 9 days, the entire sick leave

1,561.54 * 9 = 14,053.86 rubles.

The first three days will be paid by the employer in the amount of 1561.64*3=4684.92 rubles.

At the expense of the Social Insurance Fund 9368.94 rubles.

Is sick leave included in the calculation of vacation pay?

Annual leave is given to the employee specifically for rest, and not for illness. Therefore, if a person falls ill while on annual paid leave, he is paid sick leave in accordance with his length of service and average earnings.

The time that an employee spent on sick leave, being treated in a hospital or at home, does not affect the total length of service (according to Article 121 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). That is, the employee retains the right to paid vacation, even if he has been ill for several months. But when calculating average earnings, time and funds paid will not be taken into account: this practice is based on Government Decree No. 922 dated December 24, 2007 (Part 7 of Article 139 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).

If during the last year the employee was on sick leave, neither the money paid nor the days of illness will be taken into account when calculating vacation pay, that is, the average earnings during illness decreases, and with it the amount of vacation pay decreases.

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Employer action algorithm

If an employee notifies the employer that he is undergoing treatment during a legal paid vacation, then there are two options for further action :

• extend vacation by the number of days of incapacity;
• reschedule your vacation for another period.

At the same time, the employer does not have the right to independently decide what to do without the employee’s consent.

But it is worth remembering that not in all cases leave can be extended due to sick leave, so annual leave is transferred in connection with sick leave to care for a child, if this is expressly provided for in a local regulatory act (Part 1 of Article 124 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, clause clause 17 of the Rules on regular vacations, Letter of Rostrud No. GP/4629-6-1 dated June 1, 2012, Letter of the Ministry of Labor of Russia No. 14-2/OOG-8536 dated October 26, 2018), also the vacation is not extended due to sick leave if leave is taken with subsequent dismissal (Rostrud Letter No. 5277-6-1 dated December 12, 2007)

Extension of rest

Extension of leave due to sick leave does not require any statements from the employee. A verbal agreement with the employer is sufficient. The legislation does not require writing an application . However, some organizations are of the opinion that the employee’s written consent to extend legal rest is necessary to issue an internal order.

The employee is not required to write an application for an extension of rest, since the basis for such an action is a closed certificate of incapacity for work. It is sent to the accounting or personnel department, which fills out its part and then sends the sheet for payment to the Social Security Fund.

Extending leave due to sick leave requires only two actions from the employer:

1. Filling out your part in the certificate of incapacity for work. Transfer of sick leave to the Social Insurance Fund.
2. Corrections in timesheets and vacation schedules.

No order should be issued, since there are no established legislative norms for this.

The employee begins his duties as many days after sick leave as the number of days he spent on treatment during his annual vacation.

Calculation example:

The person went on vacation from March 15 to April 12.

I fell ill on March 25 and was discharged on April 4.

He should begin his duties not on April 12, as scheduled, but on April 22.

Rest is extended by exactly 10 days that were incapacitated.

Postponement of holiday

The transfer of rest days is made only on the basis of a written application from the employee.

In this case, the employer is obliged to issue an appropriate order, on the basis of which the accounting department recalculates previously paid funds and calculates sick leave.

The employee fills out an application for transferring rest days on the day of leaving sick leave. Based on the employee’s written application, the employer issues an order. Rescheduling dates can be agreed upon verbally.

The employer issues an order and submits it, along with the sick leave and the employee’s application, to the accounting department or human resources department. After which the documents are transferred to the Social Insurance Fund for the calculation of disability benefits, and vacation pay is subject to recalculation.

Sick pay during administrative leave

Every employee should know that sick leave and vacation are compatible. If a citizen works under an employment contract, then the employer pays contributions to the Social Insurance Fund for him in case of disability. This means that every employee has the right to paid sick leave.

Then the employee is obliged to bring the already closed sick leave to the employer. But, first of all, as soon as the employee opens a sick leave, he must notify his employer about this. Even if this did not happen, this is not a basis for refusing to pay sick leave.

While on administrative leave, sick leave is paid

This is true when sick leave is opened due to illness of the vacationer. If a relative, for example a child, falls ill, and sick leave is open due to the parent’s care for him, then payment is not made and the vacation is not extended. ? As for leave without pay, everything is clear here.

Clause 22 of the Procedure for issuing certificates of incapacity for work states that the certificate must be issued from the day of the planned return to work. However, the employee does not always know about this, and the doctor often forgets to ask.

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Difficulties and questions

Article 9 of Federal Law No. 255-FZ of December 29, 2006 clearly states that temporary disability benefits are not paid if the illness occurred during the period of vacation at one’s own expense . There is no point in counting on postponing sick days or extending the duration of rest.

It would seem that everything is extremely clear, but there are many nuances that raise a lot of questions. Let's look at the most common and incomprehensible situations.

Is it necessary to show the days of illness on the timesheet?

Leave without pay is marked on the timesheet with the following codes::

• Mandatory administrative leave, which must be granted to an employee included in a special category, is indicated by the letters OZ or the number 17.
• If time off is taken at the request of the employee himself with the permission of the manager, then the letters DO or numbers 16 are entered.

An employee’s incapacity for work that occurred during the administrative period should not be noted on the report card. The letter B is entered into the cells of the time sheet only on those days when the time off is exhausted and he was supposed to start work, but could not do this.

Is it possible to get a part-time job?

Having two or more official jobs at once often leads to a huge number of controversial issues on the part of both the employee and the employer.

Systematization of vacations at the main place of work and part-time work is the prerogative of the hired person himself . He is the one who makes sure that the rest periods coincide. But it may happen that unpaid days of rest are issued only for the main job, and part-time a person fulfills his duties to the established extent.

This approach will allow you to apply for sick leave and receive appropriate payments for it, but only within the framework of the salary received in combination. At low rates, the payment for the ballot will be extremely low, but the part-time worker will receive an official document for temporary absence from work.

BC in the interval between annual and unpaid rest

While on paid annual leave, a person can open sick leave, compensate for it and count on extending the rest or transferring days not taken off to another period. If the main leave turns into administrative leave, then payments are made only partially .

Consider this example: Annual paid leave: January 24 – February 17. From February 18 to February 22 inclusive, days are booked at your own expense. Sick leave opened on February 15 and closed on February 20.

Days that fall on the main vacation are paid - February 15, 16, 17. The remaining days of the newsletter cannot be paid for. The employee has the right to extend his main rest by 3 days, but this can be done without shifting days at his own expense.

Unused days can be moved to February 23, 24, 25 or transferred to another more convenient period. Incapacity for work occurring on February 18, 19, 20 does not allow the extension of administrative leave.

Sick leave due to pregnancy during unpaid leave

When determining the amount of benefits for the period of temporary disability subject to compensation, several points must be taken into account:

1. In accordance with Part 6 of Art. 7, as well as Part 1.1 of Article 14 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 255-FZ dated December 29, 2006, if during the 2 years preceding the start of paid sick leave the employee’s earnings were less than the minimum wage established by law or his work experience did not reach 6- months, then to calculate compensation it is necessary to use the current minimum wage.
2. The amount of earnings for a specified period, taken into account when determining the amount of compensation for a certificate of incapacity for work in accordance with Part 2 and Part 3.2 of Article 14 of Law No. 255-FZ and Part 4 of Article 8 of Law No. 212-FZ, should not exceed the maximum base amount established by law amounts for calculating insurance premiums for a given period.
   For example, in 2021 this amount was 718 thousand rubles.

This can be done by sending a request to the Social Insurance Fund or comparing the data on the number of the certificate of incapacity with the numbers in a special file posted on the social insurance website. A sample application to the Social Insurance Fund for verification of sick leave is here. Employee's application The application for transfer of leave must contain information about the employer, a request for leave at a convenient time, agreed upon with the director of the organization. The application is signed by the employee. The decision to transfer is made by the employer, taking into account the wishes of the employee. A sample application for postponing vacation due to sick leave is here. Payment Payment is calculated taking into account the employee’s average monthly earnings received for the 2 years preceding the vacation and sick leave. The money must be transferred without delay and in full.

On compulsory social insurance..." dated December 29, 2006 No. 255-FZ, according to which sickness benefits are not assigned during absence from work without pay agreed with the employer

IMPORTANT! This norm does not apply to sick leave received during the period of annual leave paid by the employer.

Is it permissible, upon learning about the illness, to go to work early in order to open a paid ballot?

Expert opinion

Novikov Oleg Tarasovich

Legal consultant with 7 years of experience. Specializes in criminal law. Member of the Bar Association.

A vacation taken at one's own expense can be interrupted at the request of both parties . The employee has the right to apply to the head of the organization with a written request to terminate the administrative leave and recall him to the workplace.

The employer, for its part, has the right to approve the employee’s initiative or reject it, forcing him to take time off until the end of the formalized period. If an application for early termination of unpaid leave is submitted with the aim of deceiving the enterprise and going on paid sick leave, management has the right not to sign the application.

If the trick was not discovered, then any penalties cannot be applied to the employee. Another question is that he will lose trust and will not be able to count on satisfying his requests with the same ease in the future.

Temporary disability

Temporary disability can overtake a person at any time.

This term includes:

1. Diseases that do not require hospitalization and can be treated at home.
2. Diseases for which treatment requires observation in a hospital.
3. Operations and postoperative periods.
4. Fractures and injuries.
5. Prosthetics.

Temporary disability is defined by the fact that it has a limited duration, and as a result, the person still recovers and returns to the workplace. If recovery does not occur, the patient is assigned a disability.

Regardless of the duration of the illness and treatment, the employee retains his job throughout this period. And sick time is paid partly by the employer, and partly from the social fund according to the norms adopted in the legislation. To maintain a job and receive compensation payments, an employee must consult a doctor on the day the illness begins and have his condition certified. Subsequently, it is necessary to strictly follow the doctor’s instructions, and upon recovery, receive a sick leave certificate. It is this document that allows the employer to certify that the reason for absence from work is justified and make payment. Without a certificate of incapacity for work, payment will not be made, and days of absence from work will be counted as absenteeism.

Is it possible to postpone or extend?

Vacation at your own expense is a specific type of vacation that is not subject to the rules that apply within the main or additional vacation periods. A ballot opened during paid leave allows the employee to extend the rest for days of incapacity or take them off later.

This procedure does not apply to unpaid time off. Employees who fall ill during the rest period at their own expense cannot count on :

• Increased days off due to illness.
• Transferring days lost due to illness to another time.

The norm applies to personal certificates of incapacity for work and certificates for caring for family members.

Is it paid during administrative leave or not?

Will sick leave be paid? When taking leave at his own expense, the employee does not receive payment for the days taken. However, these are not all material restrictions regarding unpaid time. On vacation days at his own expense, the employee is deprived of social guarantees.

He cannot count on compensation for temporary disability, which occurred during time off at his own expense. The established rule is valid only within the days taken at your own expense and no more.

If the certificate of incapacity for work falls simultaneously with time off at your own expense

Most employees can take vacation at their own expense once a year for 5 days. But the law does not prohibit registering a longer duration if the management of the organization has nothing against it. If an employee falls ill while on leave and has recovered by the time it ends, he will not be able to receive sick pay because:

1. The ballot cannot be opened during this period.
2. This is not considered an insurance period.

Apart from the legislative basis, the employee will not have supporting documents on hand. If you receive a ballot fraudulently, you should not expect to pay for it either.

If after the vacation period the employee continues to be sick

Vacation at your own expense rarely lasts long; more often it is taken for only 1-5 days to resolve personal issues. Sometimes it takes much longer to improve your health. Therefore, the end of your vacation at your own expense does not always coincide with the moment of recovery.

After the time off taken without pay ends, the person must return to his workplace or apply for sick leave. Having a bulletin allows you not to go to work until you fully recover .

The period from the end of unpaid leave to the actual return to work will be paid as days of incapacity for work according to the standard scheme.