If you get sick
What should you do if you get sick? As a university employee, you can turn to our occupational health care for advice on work-related illnesses and for counselling sessions.
Heads of department and other managers, as representatives of the employer, can turn to the occupational health care for help in rehabilitation matters.
What to do when you get sick
Report of sickness
On your first day of sickness, you make a report of sickness via Primula. Also follow the department's/equivalent routines when reporting sickness.
Return to work report
When you are back at work, you make a return to work report via Primula.
Sick for more than 7 days
If you are sick more than 7 calendar days in a row, you must submit a full medical certificate to your immediate manager who is responsible for your rehabilitation.
In certain circumstances, a medical certificate may be required for a shorter period of time. For periods of sickness of more than 7 days, registration in Primula is done by a payroll officer at the HR Office, after receiving sick leave report via the department/equivalent.
When processing sick leave reports and medical certificates, secrecy applies in accordance with the Secrecy Act (Sekretesslagen).
Requirement for medical certificate
To be entitled to sick pay and to be absent from work due to illness, the medical certificate must include the following information:
- confirmation that your capacity for work is fully or partially reduced due to illness
- Swedish personal identity number (personnummer), extent of sick leave, and the period of sick leave
- a description of how your capacity for work is impaired
- the work tasks used as a basis for evaluating your work capacity and from which you have been signed off due to illness.
The medical certificate must be issued by a licensed physician (or licensed dentist).
If the medical certificate is issued in another country, it must be written in English and include the information above. The employer does not cover the cost of translating the medical certificate. The medical certificate in its original language must be attached to the translation.
Sick pay and qualifying period of deduction from sick pay
If you are on sick leave, you as an employee are entitled to sick pay from your employer. A qualifying period of deduction is made from the sick pay.
Sick pay for days 1–14 during the sick period is 80 % of the deduction from sick pay. For days 15–365, a sickness benefit supplement of 10 % of the sickness deduction is paid. From the 15th day of a period of sickness, sickness benefit is paid by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Employees with an annual salary of more than 8 times the price base amount receive from the day 15 of sick leave compensation for the exceeding part according to Villkorsavtal/Villkorsavtal-T, chap. 7.
The qualifying period of deduction from sick pay is calculated on the basis of current compensation during the month. The deduction is made with the same amount, regardless of whether you are sick all or a part of the first day of sickness. However, the qualifying period of deduction from sick pay can never be greater than the estimated sick pay. If a new period of sickness begins within five calendar days of the end of a previous period of sickness, it is considered a continuation of the previous period of sickness in terms of qualifying period of deduction from sick pay, the amount of compensation and the length of the sick pay period. This means i.a. that if full qualifying period of deduction from sick pay has not been possible in the first period of sickness, the remaining deduction shall be made in the next period.
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation is a collective term for the medical, psychological, social and work-orientated measures that are taken to help an employee return to or remain at work as quickly as possible.
Reimbursement for medicine
You receive compensation for the costs of medicines that are covered by high-cost protection by law.
Contact
In the first place, contact your department.