You should enter the sickness absence entry onto MyView as soon as possible, preferably on the first day of the employees' absence.

Please do not wait for the employee to return from absence to create the sickness entry on MyView.

Payroll no longer need any paper self certification forms. These should be completed as normal when the employee returns from absence but instead should be uploaded onto MyView using the document storage module, My Team's Documents.

Payroll no longer need doctors certificates to be sent to them. They should be uploaded via document storage in the same way as the self-certificate. The reason for this is payroll are no longer required to retain the original doctors certificates for statutory sick pay and audit purposes.