German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party wants to end the option of employees getting a sick note by phone. Its coalition partner, however, opposes the proposal. The center-left Social Democrats are ...

Registered nurses in Wisconsin will be barred from providing written statements excusing a child from school. They were ...

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The Manitoba government introduced more than a dozen bills in the legislature Thursday aimed at cracking down on machetes, reducing the use of sick notes and enacting other measures promised in its ...

Political fixer Brown Mogotsi failed to appear for his scheduled testimony at the Madlanga Commission citing illness at the eleventh hour and promising to submit a sick note later in the day.

Aussie employers are calling for a crackdown on workers using online medical certificates to claim sick leave, along with changes to make it easier to roster staff on to work public holidays. Online ...

Chancellor’s party votes to demand workers consult a doctor in person as absenteeism costs employers £71bn a year James Jackson is a Berlin-based journalist, documentary maker and presenter, as well ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hopes to ban workers from calling in sick in a bid to tackle the country's soaring rate of workplace absence. Mr Merz has long believed the issue is harming Germany's ...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) said that, in cooperation with Governor Jeff Landry, the government would send a “great hospital boat” to Greenland to help care of “sick people”, ...

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was sending a hospital boat to Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory that he has long coveted and threatened to seize by force. Trump’s rhetoric has ...