Sentence examples for signed off sick from inspiring English sources

He was then diagnosed with depression, put on medication and signed off sick.

A report on sickness and absence, commissioned by the government, will recommend ways to help people who are signed off sick back into work.

In numerous towns across the country, the increases were markedly higher – with those signed off sick tripling or even quadrupling in a decade.

I have overheard too many derogatory comments about fellow teachers who are signed off sick with stress, or depression and anxiety.

It could involve a greater move towards people having a phased return to work after they are signed off sick and more contact between employers and sick employees.

Jenny Wheatley was signed off sick from work with "anxiety and depression" in January 2011 and was made redundant on medical grounds two months later.

Lisa Cunningham, 45, was signed off on sick leave and prescribed Prozac after suffering problems at work.

The 27-year-old had also been signed off work sick by two doctors and given anti-depressives.

I know that was the case with me: I turned on my camera because I was at home, signed off work, sick, and really bored.

The fact that Lubitz appears to have been signed off as sick raises the question of whether there was - or should have been - contact between his doctors and the airline.

It's a clever and promising idea – full of such moments as Russell struggling not to flinch when her daughter reports the cold war anti-Ruskie tone of American history-teaching – but the sort of executives who like viewers to know where they are straightaway would be signed off on immediate sick-leave after a viewing.