Reporting your employee’s long-term illness
If your employee has been ill for three-quarters of a year, you must report this to us. Make sure you do this no later than the first working day after the 42nd week of illness. This notification is called the ‘42e-weeksmelding.
How to report long-term illness
To report your employee’s illness, please use the ‘Report an absence’ feature on the employer portal. You will need an EH3 level eHerkenning account to do this. Alternatively, if you are a Digipoort user, you can notify us of your employee’s illness through your own HR administration system, which is directly linked to our system.
If your employee returns to work during their illness
Your employee might return to work for a while during their illness. If this happens, keep the following in mind when calculating the first day of illness:
- If your employee becomes ill within the first 4 weeks of returning to work, the first day of illness will remain the same.
- If your employee becomes ill after having worked 4 weeks in a row, the 42 weeks of illness will start all over again. This means your employee’s first day of illness will change.
What happens next?
We will send you a letter around the 44th week of your employee’s illness. In this letter, we will inform you of your responsibilities in helping your employee return to work.