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Sick leaves: a cultural difference

I’m fairly new in the French workplace and I’m on r/AntiTaff, the French counterpart of antiwork. I just learned from a post there how French employers are not supposed to ask the reason behind taking a sick day. Idk if it is illegal but at the very least, it’s seen as transgression of an employee’s right to his personal life and medical secrecy. So, when taking a sick day, you just call in sick. No need to indicate the illness or it’s gravity. Idk, I just find it so different from my having to invent all sorts of diseases.


I’m fairly new in the French workplace and I’m on r/AntiTaff, the French counterpart of antiwork.

I just learned from a post there how French employers are not supposed to ask the reason behind taking a sick day. Idk if it is illegal but at the very least, it’s seen as transgression of an employee’s right to his personal life and medical secrecy.

So, when taking a sick day, you just call in sick. No need to indicate the illness or it’s gravity. Idk, I just find it so different from my having to invent all sorts of diseases.

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