Should time off for elective surgery be taken as sick leave or annual leave?

A manager recently asked Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway for advice on whether his personal assistant could have two weeks’ sick leave for cosmetic surgery. He had originally agreed to her sick leave as he thought it was for an operation, but after finding out it was for cosmetic surgery he told her she would have to take it as holiday.

The personal assistant was upset by this and threatened to quit, but the manager didn’t want to lose her and was unsure what to do. Kell... (256 more words)

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