American Reacts to "NHS, UK Annual Leave, Maternity Pay" 

You DON'T get in trouble for " jaywalking" in the UK because it's called CROSSING THE ROAD !! We are taught how to do it as kids !! How can crossing the road be illegal !? An allotment is not a community garden. You rent a piece of land from the local council and you can grow fruit and vegetables there.

She said that Brits wouldn't be able to name all the States of the USA. Hardly a fair comparison when there are 50 states compared with 4 countries which make up the UK! However, I think you would find that a lot of Brits could name most of the American states. Her friend doesn't seem to know much about her own country, let alone the UK!

Now retired, but as a past employer of 50 staff in the UK the last thing I wanted was for a sick member of staff with flu or COVID to come into work knowing that, and give it to the rest of the staff and myself, and our customers and clients. It could potentially bring the company to a halt. So as well as a fair sick leave policy being good for employees ( giving them support and less stress), it also makes perfect sense for the company. We had a comprehensive sick leave policy which was fair to all but could identify those who were malingering through the need for “return to work “ interviews, doctors notes etc. I have to admit that over 20 years I can only think of 2 people who tried to abuse sick leave, the vast majority of staff didn’t. A successful company works with trust on both the employer and employee side.

It’s all relative - poor quality food = poor health. Cost of living is high in uk but STILL far lower than in the USA - I always assumed EVERYTHING was cheaper in the us because it’s a far larger market, companies can buy products in bulk for cheaper but at the till I am shocked to see that most things are actually more expensive in the states. Even food - even crappy cheap processed food in the USA is more expensive than good nutritious food in the uk - after a lifetime of wishing I lived in the USA but after living there for a years I left pretty darn quickly when I realised how unequal and uncaring the big society is about the poor . I am now SO GRATEFUL and appreciative to be a Brit living in the uk today / it’s far from perfect but a damn sight better than the rest. Brits also don’t have to worry about deductibles or being held to ransome by immoral pharmacy companies or corrupt hospitals - oh you touched your own baby? I want my cut of that - $100 added to the bill (!) Individually paying for meds and healthcare?! - everyone loses that way. In the USA you have private and public schools. The public schools don’t threaten the private ones - the two systems mean EVERYONE gets an education if they want it. Yet brainwashed suspicious Americans scream “socialist conumizzzzm!” At the thought of our nhs - which keeps more average Brits healthy and alive for longer than the average American. We have private and free healthcare - the public healthcare is as good ast the private healthcare usually because it’s the same doctors from the same universities - but on the nhs you’ll have to wait longer, and that’s a fact of life. but that’s still preferable to getting it NEVER (!) how is that so difficult to understand? The amount of second hand embarrassment I feel for the usa when I see Americans with good jobs - teachers etc on gofundme pages begging for money from strangers so that they can have operations that will make their lives worth living without becoming bankrupt. If you ever get a universal nhs of your own - when you do have it and look back at the humiliating demeaning things your own people had to do just to be able to live a life free from pain or worry / it’ll be Americas second greatest shame after slavery. That’s not acceptable in the richest nation on earth - you give education for free but not healthcare? So your people are good enough to teach to read so that they can perform mundane low paid jobs and manual work but if they get injured they’re not valued enough to be given a universal healthcare free from confusing contracts about all that nasty deductible nonsense? America isn’t a classless society - it’s class-less , vulgar and unfair, nor is it gods land of the free Americans are more class divided than the Brits. Last month the kings sister princess Ann spent a week amongst us common riffraff at her local nhs hospital In the usa the rich are the aristocracy and everyone else can go jump - horrible. Give me the nhs and lower wages over the American nightmare ANYDAY (!) Because now - everyone who isn’t rich in America is still a slave who’s life is worth nothing when no one is going to foot the bill for their operation.

An allotment is not a community garden. You pay a small fee to use one strip of land.

It's concerning that this girl thinks she's only paying a 5% sales tax, sure her STATE might have 0% income tax but she's still paying FEDERAL tax, and social security, and property tax (until you die), medical insurance, then there's state and federal levies on gas, oil etc.

I hate to think what my 13hr emergency open heart surgery last year would have cost in the US, plus 12 days in hospital. Or my wife's hysterectomy 13 years ago, or her hip replacement 2 years ago. She also has a blood condition, the medication for this would cost £30k each year . Thank goodness for the NHS. Although we both paid our National insurance for over 45 years.

The allotment was originally used where the houses didn’t have space for an outside garden in their own home, for example in built up areas or cities.

First 5 days of being sick can be self-certified, but if you’re sick you more than 5 days in a stretch, your employer can ask you for a sick note from your doctor.

Hi Joel greetings from England 🇬🇧 The NHS Mantra is Free At The Point Of Use From The Cradle To The Grave.

Jaywalking was coined in the US over a hundred years ago. It comes from the fact that “Jay” used to be a generic term for someone who was an idiot, dull, unsophisticated, poor, hick or a simpleton. I guess we are too sophisticated in the UK, lol.

I used to work in a job which I hated, and I would call in sick with food poisoning. I did it that much they asked me if I wanted cooking classes. 🤣🤣

UK here. In 2012 I had 3 weeks of my 5 weeks holidays booked for June. In may I had a heart attack and was off work for 3 months. I got full pay. When I got back to work I was there 1 week then took those 3 weeks holidays. You can't be on holiday when you're off sick. So 3 months then 3 weeks on full pay. Brilliant

Hi Joel. Actually, you can earn £12,500 before you start to pay tax. Even then, tax is only paid on earnings OVER that 12.5k. For example, if you earn £20,000, you would pay tax on £7,500.

After a few days, a doctor has to to verify that you are too sick to work.

I attended junior prep school in England (aged 8-13) and got 100 percent on naming the 50 states after they increased from 48 whilst I was there. I think most A-level geography students in the UK could do that too. Last Christmas, during our annual online family quiz, the geography geeks among my grandsons got 45 and 44 of them. They were then 13 year olds at school in BC and Queensland, respectively. Foreign kids know a hundred times as much about the US (and the world in general) than do average US kids of their age know about anywhere outside the US.

Pedestrians have the right of way on all roads except motorways.

the other thing about taxes - in the UK if you are an Employee your employer does all your tax returns for you - most people will never have contact with HMRC (Govt. tax collectors)

Most people living in houses have back gardens that are mainly lawned with flower beds and sometimes trees. Flats may have community gardens which are communal spaces. Allotments are plots of land, usually rented, where people grow their own produce. I used to live in a house with a garden which backed onto a huge plot of land which was used as allotments. We could walk out our back garden gate to attend to growing our own vegetables.

I got 6 months paternity leave full pay when we had our 2nd child, my wife also had 6 months full pay maternity leave then 3 months statutory maternity pay then 3 months no pay and then went back to work after 12 months!

We have a very large garden, but we also have a share of an allotment with my brother. And today we’ve just picked new potatoes, carrots, salad, things, green beans, butter beans. Sadly, the asparagus season has finished

She had to be told the fourth UK country and then said, I bet you (the viewer) cannot name the American states. First, they are states, not countries. And there are 50 of them. So this is not a reasonable question of similar information. So stupid!

Also, Joel, one other point she should have asked her friend when talking about taxes - as an employee of a company, did she need to use a private accountant just to fill her tax forms about what she may need to pay annually? Remember, here in the UK as an employee, we use the P.A.Y.E system, the employer/company handles the paperwork to pay our various taxes - meaning what we get paid weekly, fortnightly, or monthly (depending how you are paid - is then what you know you have left to spend or use each time . . . no worries about having to save money to pay any annual taxes to the Gov . . . Although it doesn't work that way for any self-employed person, or company owner, as they have to do their own books/taxes, with more work involved - or perhaps use an accountant or hire one if they have any employees in their business as well . . .

Usually you would need a certificate from the doctor if you have been absent from work over 7 days. If your absence follows a pattern (like every Monday), you would be asked questions. It depends how big the company is.

Many companies have a managing for attendance policy. So if you are always sick when your footy team is playing they will notice and it can be used as part of discipline.

In December 1992 I was hit by a drunk driver. I lost my left leg, broken jaw, fractured skull, eight broken ribs and a fractured pelvis, fractured cheekbone. I was in hospital for two months. Cost was zero. I got a huge insurance payment as well as compensation from the government. I wonder how much it would cost in the US. Probably half a million.

8 bank hols are not part of your annual leave..they are additional. So by late spring you have NY day 1 Easter mon 1. Spring bank 1 So take a week off from your allowance and add on 3 bank hol with your weekend So 10 days off.. with pay.. There are differences in bank hol pay.. If you actually worked it or just had that day off..

In the US the number of weeks paid maternity leave is zero! In the UK it is 39 weeks, the first six weeks 90% of their weekly pay, the next 33 weeks either 90% or £184 a week whichever is lower.

There are 4 countries. Scotland. England. Wales and Northern Ireland this is split into 92 counties. There are currently 76 recognised cities (including 31 lord mayoralties or lord provostships) in the UK: 52 cities (23 lord mayoralties) in England, six cities (two lord mayoralties) in Wales, seven cities (four lord provostships) in Scotland and five cities (two lord mayoralties) in Northern Ireland. Over 5,000 towns are recognised In the UK and over 6,600 villages.

The way my boss used to tell us not to come to work when ill cause he'd rather have just one off than everyone 😂😂

If I’m off sick, while on annual leave, our HR department will tell us to cancel those leave days to claim those days back and use the sick time. We also get more separate days off for ‘compassionate leave’ if a friend or relative dies.. and more days available if you want to volunteer at one of the charities our company supports. After 10 years working at the same place, I got an additional 5 days off.

I'm back next week for a check up after pelvis surgery. It's roughly 2 hours away and transport (ambulance with bed/stretcher) has been booked as I can't walk yet. Obviously I won't be receiving a bill 😉 The whole thing from the beginning including ambulances, medication, scans, X-rays and of course the surgery has been free.

When I broke my arm skateboarding, the ambulance ride was $5,000 for 3 miles......My "insurance" paid for 20% of it....IDK y because I have like the (supposedly) best insurance comp. in the USA).....But this was 3 years ago, and I no longer support big-pharma...with my money.

In the UK your personal tax allowance is £12,570 (until you earn this, you don't pay tax). Anything AFTER this figure, you pay 20% (up to £50,270). Obviously other factors can affect what you pay or get allowances for... children etc. but that is the basic 'single person' tax. 😊

Most workplaces have their own absence policy for sickness. For instance with mine you're allowed 3 periods of sickness a year before you reach stage one, you then have a meeting to discuss your absences and then it resets. If you have three more periods of absence within the 12 months, you get stage 2 which involves another meeting and it resets again. If you have 3 more then you have Stage 3 which can lead to getting fired.

So it's worth noting that whilst your employer cannot legally limit your sick days, the situation is more complicated than that. 1. You have a maximum amount of days you can be off sick before you need a doctors note. 2. Your employer stops paying you for your sick days after a certain point and at that point you move to Statutory Sick Pay, which is paid by the Government and is not a whole lot of money. 3. Most places will put you on some kind of formal or informal "targets" if you are sick too much, the impact of that will vary from being unable to qualify for a payrise or bonus or some form of benefit the employer offers, through to losing your job. This is really only if you have a lot of sickness that doesn't have a doctor's note - you won't get fired for having a serious medical condition or anything.

There are generally limits to sick leave, but it varies from employer to employer. So for example you may be reduced to half pay after six months.

Most companies in the UK won't let you use your holidays as sick leave.

That was misleading about the income tax as you don't pay 20% of your income. There is a threshold before which you pay no tax.

in uk, the majority of employment is not paid sick time. But if you dont have paid sick leave and you are off for more than 3 days the government pays you statutory sick pay. Which is £116.75 per week until you go back to work

And no they don't know how taxes work 🙄

No an allotment isn’t a community garden, each allotment owner pays a rent for a year a time, it’s normally rented from the local council. And you can grow what you want in it, then every year the owners will have a stall where you can buy the fresh vegetables and flowers which are grown on their allotment.

In the UK 27 years ago it was 12 weeks maternity too. It was appalling.

Allotment aren't really a community place. People have gardens and Allotments, generally they grow veg or keep chickens.

I was off work for 1 1/2 years (3 operations) starting 2006 - 2008. When I went back to work (a firm is not allowed to fire you if you are off sick). I had a total of 69 vacation days which I had to use. 9 days from 2006, 30 days from 2007 and 30 days from 2008. To get rid of the excess days I worked for 1 week and was sent on vacation for 3 weeks (15 days), came back for 2 weeks and then sent again for 4 weeks (20 days) which left 34 days for summer vacation 2008.

The allotment is a story on its own , the main objective was to grow fresh vegetables. In some cases chickens were kept for fresh eggs some even had pigs that were owned by a co-op of people for the pork. Many men used it as an escape once the planting was done a little maintenance then sit down and have a drink , beer , and in my father's case a drag on the pipe. They're very popular again now mainly due to inflation and food prices,but also the trend in organic food and knowing where your food came from.

Not only will being off sick not affect your holidays, if you are sick on holiday you can claim those days back.

I was looking into ambulance costs a few months ago and apparently it costs the NHS approximately £500 a ride on average

An Allotment Joel ... Do you remember "One Foot In The Grave" where Eric Idle guest stars? when Victor buys some manure only to discover its could be radioactive from Chernobyl Well that large garden is a Allotment yes its a kind of community garden the local district council sets aside land for folks to grow their own vegetables and if their allowed raise chickens..

I get all weekends off, 30 days annual leave, all bank holidays, the kings birthday, any hours worked over I can bank, build-up and take as leave, and 6 months sickness absence (never had to used the last one 🤞🏻) I really feel for you guys in the USA, you really do have such a raw deal with holidays, health service and lack of income taxes towards infrastructure.

Most people in the UK don't take advantage too much. It's not a novelty, so we don't see it in the same way

I have an allotment, it's brilliant!! I pay £10 a year for it and my wife grows veg and flowers and I have a small orchard. We also have a nice garden but no room for the veg or orchard. Anyone can have one but in some places there are waiting lists.

On the issue of maternity leave, you are also guaranteed to be able to go back to your old job on the same conditions. You CANNOT be fired for being on maternity leave......

it actually depends on where you work when it comes to "vacation days", my job has 27 days standard with

Hi Joel Every employer varies, but I work for the NHS and they allow up to 4 or 5 sickness episodes before you will then be called to a first formal, which is basically a meeting with your manager and somebody from HR who will then try to understand why you have been off sick so much and whether there is anything they can do as a company to support you back at work and make things a little easier. Here in the UK if your sick, your sick. And yea, people do take advantage out of it all the time. But that’s why the 4 sick occasions (doesn’t have to be a day, you could be off months and it would still be one occasion) allowance a year is used, to try and whittle out who is really sick and who is playing the system. After the first meeting if you are sick anymore in the year, it goes to a second, which runs just like the first, but if you are sick again without appropriate reasons or grounds after that, then it’s disciplinary action. So there is a system for dealing with people who take the piss out of the system. I hope that helps! Love your videos, come back to the UK soon, if your ever in Somerset, I’ll happily show you around :) Also, annual leave and sick leave is completely separate. We also get sick pay when we are off for sickness, but that again varies company by company

In the UK if you come into the office with the cold or the flu you are told to go home because you will end up giving it to others. If you are going to be sick for 7 days or more you must get a note from your Doctor (it is called a "sick" note) confirming you are unable to work and you will be entitled to this on full pay. If your Doctor confirms you will be off work for a long period of time your company must pay you SSP (Statutory Sick Pay) for up to 28 weeks put not on full pay, I think it about £470ish per month. The amount of paid holidays of 28 (20 mandatory plus 8 bank holidays) days is indeed correct but your employer for the needs of the business can ask you to work on a bank holiday but you will be able to take that day at another time when the business is less busy.

When I worked for Barclays 20 years ago or so I, unfortunately, was off ill for 2 protracted periods about 5 years apart. With the first I had a day off feeling unwell and told my boss that I would go to my GP the following day if I felt the same, which I did. I was signed off by my GP as I was so ill (I had gone hoping that I wasn't wasting her time). She actually said that if my breathing had not improved in a couple of days I needed to be admitted to hospital. In total I was signed off for 6 weeks and during that time my boss called me to see how I was and if there was anything that I needed. During the last week I went and stayed with my brother and his wife (I live alone) and on the day that I went home I told them that I was going back to work the next day. My sister in law told me that I wasn't fit enough to do so but I did anyway. After 3 days at work I was off for another fortnight! The second was similar except that I was off for longer and had a couple of visits by my boss at a local cafe to talk things through. My return to work was staged so that I went back part time and slowly built up my hours over a month or so to full time. My dedication to my work was well known so they knew that I wasn't pulling a fast one. On top of this the office was a bit like a family and we all looked after and cared about one another and the bank did care about the health and welfare of its staff. Furthermore, I received full pay on both occasions and everything medicalwise was free apart from the prescriptions.

So, in the UK You get 7 days self certified (including weekends, and days off) but after that point you need FIT note from a doctor to verify you're unfit for work. An employer legally has to pay you Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) for 28 weeks after which point you would have to claim Benefits such as Universal Credit. Some employers may top up you SSP, for example NHS will ensure you have full wages for 6 months I believe. However, after a certian amount of time they can force you to use some of your holiday days. However, they can also refer you for an occupational health assessment, which is a personal, usually a nurse, who you will visit or call you, ask you question about your sickness etc and find out if any can be done to get you back into work etc ie going back part time for so long for example. After a set amount of time if your not clear on when you can return they are legally allowed to terminate your contract.

If I were you, Joel, I would emigrate to Britain with Will; you would do great things here.

With my job In southwest UK. You can have 5 days sick leave (unpaid & without needing proof of illness). But if it’s more than 5 days you need a sick note from the doctor + can start receiving sick pay.

Allotments came about during wartime so that people could grow their own vegetables and to an extent are still used for that.

Allotments are specifically for growing flowers or vegetables, not like a community garden.

Florida doesn't have income tax for individuals, but you still need to pay the federal tax.

What countries have allotment gardens? We have them in Sweden. They often come with tiny cute houses. They are popular in the cities.

The income tax in England starts after the 11000 pounds. So the 8000 would be taxed at 20 percent and not the whole 20000( example)

Hi! I am from Sweden. If you are sick/ill ”suspiciously” many times you are requierd to have a medical certificate every time you stay home. That’s how we do. But we get 80% of our salary if we are home with our sick/ill child. And we don’t have maternaty leave, but parental leave. You can share the 16 months between you. So many fathers stay at home when the child is a toddler. Because we think the fathers are important to the child aswell. Thank you for fin videos.

A work colleague today has just gone off on paternity leave. That’s four months off fully paid! 😮

The 28 day holiday is full pay as well I also get a monthly bonus for not being sick 😂😂

The sick allowance in the UK is slightly overstated. She's right that there's no technical limit on sick pay, so you can't be fired for being sick too much, but the employer is only technically obliged to pay Statutory Sick Pay, which is just £116 a week. So not really enough to live on. Most people will have a contract where they're paid in full though. I don't work in the UK, but I work for a UK company, and we can sign ourselves off for 2 days but on the third day, we have to get a doctor's note. And we can only sign ourselves off 5 times a year. You will also typically get a meeting with your manager if you're sick on multiple occasions, which is very much in the "Is there anything we can do to help?" vein, but clearly with an undertone of "We've got our eye on you."

My experience of UK sick days is that people who are inclined to take advantage of it will also be poor workers and that will limit their progress anyway, whereas good workers don't take sickies. It pretty soon becomes clear who is genuinely ill a lot and who it just trying it on. Also, with our fairly generous annual leave and standard hours in a week, it isn't so important to save a days leave if you just really need a day off. And of course if you are part time you don't get paid for being ill.

if someone is always taking sick leave your employer can ask you to see their own doctor, but then if someone is long term sick you go onto half pay after 6 months at most companies

FOR BEING ILL. Depending on the employer policy you can call in ill for up to one working week on full pay, after that you need a fit or sick note from the doctor. They can sign you off for as long as you need and revisit that weekly monthly etc... Depending on the employer but generally you will get full pay for 6months then after that 50% for 6 months then zero. If your company doesn't offer sick pay you can claim £70 per week from the government. Hope this clears up.

Taxes when you add on medical insurance, Americans buy more than we do in the UK

Long term school loss you get schoolwork sent home!

Im originally from the countryside (UK) Surrounded by farms fields ect, we all had nice gardens too Some men STILL had allotments, some had flowers but mostly Veg. We lived by a big area with them and do you know what?? To me as a kid - teen it seemed like a place for men to get out of their houses away from their wives. 😂😂 Its true, its a hobby down the road, leave them to it. Some go to a pub some go and mess with their vegetables and flowers or whatever. lol. Not all of them but yeah, an outside hobby. They had competitions like biggest vegetable of the year ect and seemed to make friends with others. Bless em

My granddaughter has just gone back to work after having a baby. She got 9 months on full pay and then 3 months on half pay. But although she has gone back she is doing part time for 3 months on full pay and then she'll go back to full time.

if you take more than 5 weeks off sick in a year your total employer will question it. anything over 7 working days you need a doctors note. if you on long term sick then its up the occupational health and HR to manage. an allotment its a retable patch on land to grow veg. community garden is different in the UK it would mean more like a small park for local people

Do these girls even know what they are talking about? They were not clear about the income tax they pay.

I can name every country in south America, almost every state in the USA (I might forget one if i was put on the spot) and mist countries in Africa and Asia. Our education system has a GLOBAL focus 🇬🇧.

An allotment is not a community garden btw

That 20% tax pays for NHS, Education, Police, Military, road maintenance etc.

Being off sick has to be genuine, the ones pulling a fast one will get found out. The sick pay a person gets varies from company to company, though there is a statutory sick pay from the government, which isn’t great. It also says a lot about a company on how they look after their staff.

Most employers have sickness policies where you get called in and reviewed if you have too much sickness within a set period, and after a while they will stop paying you if you're on long term sick. Pregnancy related sickness is protected though and won't contribute to triggering a review.

love your videos bro, been watching for a few years now, love following your story, keep it up

When I was a teen I was obsessed with the US states so I am pretty sure I would be able to name a fair amount of them.

Ironically whilst I’ve just been off work due to a chesty viral infection for three days, whilst on sick pay..

Alot of firms use a Bradford scale, it highlights people taking a friday off or other random patterns, 3 absences in 12 months tend to trigger a quick meeting with your line manager just to see if its something that your employer can help with, they generally are not disciplinary at this point, but yes 6 months at full pay and 6 months at half pay is average. Anything over 7 days requires a doctors note and they can be dated for any length of time. Iget 28 days of paid leave including all bank holidays and it isnt connected to sickness

As U2 said in a song, "the rich stay healthy and the sick stay poor", TRUER WORDS have never been spoken

I fell sick 4 days before my 2 weeks holiday and the management cancelled my holiday so I could keep the days rather than lose them for being ill!

hey,wondered where you were :)

We also dont have to do our own taxes,

Sick time seems to be taken advantage of more by the younger generation, in the NHS for example trainee nurses know exactly how to play the system and take maximum amount of sick without leaving themselves open to being fired! I have a number of long term health issues but have taken 3 days sick (with covid) in the last 4 years. My wife has chronic rheumatoid arthritis and hasn't been sick in years either, we just get on with it.....

Thats like saying name the counties in the UK.....

Jay walking was a law funded by the early auto industry to make cars more popular, ie to get people off the roads

In my old job because of the way my rota worked out I had 12 weeks off plus another 4 due to bank holidays.

I am English, but jaywalking is definitely a crime in Germany 😂

Current UK tax bands. Income Tax rates and bands Band Taxable income Tax rate Personal Allowance Up to £12,570 0% Basic rate £12,571 to £50,270 20% Higher rate £50,271 to £125,140 40% Additional rate over £125,140 45%

Should be noted that not everyone in the UK gets paid sick leave so some people go into work sick because they can't afford to be off

Most employers have a point with sickness absence when they will start to question it, this only short self-certified absences. A long-term illness with a doctor's letter can be unlimited. My employer has a threshold of eight but I have a condition which will cause more so I have an agreement that we will look at it if it reaches 30 in a rolling year. I have some disabilities which means I have more medical appointments than most people. E.g. I’ve just spent two days/one night in hospital this is disability leave, it is a separate type of paid leave. All my medical appointments are part of that. Allowed six weeks of that a year. I am a public sector worker and my condition got worse whilst I have been employed there. Would struggle to hold a job in the private sector. Absolute minimum of leave is 20 days plus public holidays, some places say 28 days because you can be required to work on some public holidays, some shops are open on all public holidays (but you may struggle to find one on Christmas Day or Easter Monday (large stores cannot open by law on those two days). Most places give more than that. 30 or 35 days is not that uncommon. I get 32 a year (plus public holidays) but can carry over up to 10 each year. I have other friends who get more.

If you're really ill and off work, you can 'self-certificate' for 7 days, but after that a doctor has to issue a medical sick note, also most big employers have a procedure in place, that monitors your sick days, when not validated by a doctor, and the procedure is graded, so stage 1 through to stage 4 were you can be deemed unfit for work.