sick note BrE
excuse AmE **

What was he going to do, get a sick note?

You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor, but only if they have been away for more than seven days.

My mum must have written one hell of a sick note!"

When he'd gone I said: "Have they given you a sick note?"

On the 6 April 2010 the sick note was replaced by the fit note.

Three weeks later Hughes provided the club with a sick note, saying that he was unavailable until January.

We are bound," Robin finished for her, a sick note in her voice.

Mother, in the meantime, had supplied the school inspector with countless sick notes, always provided by her tame doctor.

It can serve as a "sick note" (documentation that an employee is unfit for work) or evidence of a health condition.

There were no snide smirks today, and she wasn't acting like the kind of person who would write sick notes.

The government is to scrap the sick note that GPs have used for 60 years to sign people off work.

And it now being after Freedman's own self imposed deadline for sick notes to call in, he should have a team in mind.

If there was an Olympic Sick Note event, he would have been in the British team.

Whether or not you get a sick note is dependent on how benevolent your GP is.

For the six members of staff who have bravely volunteered for the challenge, there will be no more excuses, no sick notes available.

Get the "sick" back to work by reducing their number by half - tell doctors to decide and give them fixed sick note limits.

Sick Notes followed in 2004 and Joshua Spassky in 2007.

Johnson said sick notes were introduced in 1948 to protect vulnerable people, but they had become a mechanism for consigning thousands of workers to long-term unemployment.

Government to replace sick notes with 'fit notes'

Sick Notes (2004)

"The Sick Note"

His voice came down from the shadows in huge wads of sound, or like the warm, sick notes of some prodigious mouldering bell of felt.

The sick notes then begin to pile up, week after week-"He is in my opinion, unfit for duty and not able to travel," they each declared.

Paul Farmer, the chief executive of mental health charity Mind, said: "We welcome the plans to turn sick notes into fit notes.

He said when Mr McKay's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident.

"We must do everything within our power not to give them the excuse."

They could have an excuse to see each other every day.

Now, one more excuse for not having people over is gone.

And he has found a good excuse for doing so.

In which case, any excuse to take off will do.

People find the excuse they need to see a photo.

Actually, I was just looking for another excuse to call him.

Instead, he had used the key as an excuse to see them one more time.

But at least they had given him a real excuse to take over.

Sometimes she went home with them after school, just to have the excuse.

But why had she needed an excuse to come here at all?

She did want an excuse to be in my company.

"So what excuse do I give everyone for coming into the office today?"

Do you think what happened to your parents is some kind of excuse?

In fact, you gave me a good excuse to stop.

He found every excuse to be in his father's company.

He used any and every excuse to be out of the house.

He began trying to think of an excuse to get away.

What other excuse could He give man for making him?

He needed an excuse to have some time to himself.

He needed the excuse to stay out in the front room.

He always had an excuse not to study Company history.

Or was I just looking for an excuse to stay away?

Make any excuse so as not to come with him.

I made an excuse, and came to see what was going on.