Fake Medical Certificate to be excused from absence at work

hi jureathome. i've had my share of employees who present forged medical certificates to be excused from work. good thing that i do my due diligence and check on the authenticity of these medical certificates. the first few times that i caught employees doing this, i attributed to my gut feel. something was just not right when i read those medical certificates. we had a case wherein the clinic said outright that no such examination can be found in their records. turned out that the employee in question stole the prescription pad of the doctor. other times, the information listed int he certificate such as the doctor's/clinic's/hospital's name turns out to be fictitious. really can't comment about doctors drafting 'fake' documents and giving out bogus medical findings and prescriptions. we had an incident wherein we were able to contact and talk to the doctor over the phone to verify what he (the doctor) had written in his findings and we weren't so sure if we were talking to an actual doctor. lol! he just sounded so unbelievable over the phone but in the end, we had no recourse but to accept the medical certificate as a valid one. it got real bad so much that we had to ask our employees to get their medical certificate from doctors/clinics/hospitals that are accredited by our healthcare provider. it is sad that we had to let go of employees because of these incidents but in the long run, the company is better without unscrupulous people in its employ.

During my time with the HR department, we had our own company doctor which is a requirement of law according to the number of employees for a certain company. The company doctor provides the recommendation if the employee is required to go on sick leave including the number of days necessary for the recuperation. If the illness is an emergency, the company doctor checks the medical certificate including the employee to verify the illness. If you don't have a company doctor, the best advise I can give you is look for a private clinic or hospital near the vicinity of the company who will be authorized to check on the employees when they claim to be ill. This will certainly be an additional expense for the company but it will control absenteeism. Employees sometimes go to all extents just to get away with their absences from work even bribing doctors or health workers. However, there is also a positive way of controlling absenteeism. Why not an incentive for a monthly perfect attendance record?

Here in our company,if you are on sick leave for about three days, then you have to submit medical certificate,but if one to days, just fill up the leave form.While vacation leave should be three days prior to the exact leave day.I heard some about fakes medical certificate especially when they knew the doctor or family friend.This is usually happening to all companies I guess.

Yes I have heard several incidents like this before. Especially if the doctor is the relative of the employee. I find this really sad and rather unfair. I don't know how it can be resolved because how would the company know if the doctor is just lying or whatever, because they have their license right? Will the company take the effort to have the patient checked by other doctors just to prove that he or she is lying? This is a sad practice, seriously.