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    Default Changing the Dates on a Doctor's Note

    An employee was in a car accident and asked her doctor to write her a note so that she could recover before returning to work. She asked for four days off of work, but the note was written for two days. She didn't notice the difference until she got home and, rather than going back to the doctor, changed the note to four days before submitting it to her employer. The employer is now questioning whether the note is real. What can she do?

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    Default Re: Changing the Dates on a Doctor's Note

    There is nothing that she can do that would prevent the act of changing the note, and submitting the altered note from her employer, as grounds for discipline -- including the potential loss of her job. If she loses her job, she may find that she is unable to get unemployment based upon her being fired for willful misconduct. She knows her employer, so she likely has a sense of what will happen if she comes clean -- that is an option that might cause some employers to mitigate their response to the misconduct, but it won't undo her act of submitting the altered note.

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