Part-time employees who work reduced working hours every day
- One working day with self-certified sick leave is counted as one self-certified day.
Part-time employees who work full working days, but less than five days a week
- If the part-time employee is ill with self-certification before AND after a non-working day, the non-working day counts in the self-certification period. For example, if the employee usually works on Mondays and Wednesdays and submits a self-certified sick leave form for these days, Tuesday is also counted. The employee has then spent three self-certification days.
- The same applies if the part-time employee is ill with self-certification before AND after a public holiday or weekend.
Regulations
The use of self-certification is authorised in the National Insurance Act (folketrygdloven) § 8-24 (lovdata.no) (Norwegian). The Act does not take into account working days, but only counts calendar days, see the National Insurance Act § 8-24 fourth paragraph (lovdata.no) (Norwegian).