Channel 5 (UK) Documentaries

Sick Note Skivers Exposed (2015x24)

Fecha de emisión: Jul 15, 2015

Employers face a yearly bill of around £9billion for sick pay, with as many as 960,000 employees on sick leave for a month or more each year. One in three Brits admit to pulling a ‘sickie’ from time to time, but there are a group of people who take a duvet day to the extreme. This show will expose Britain’s biggest sick note skivers whose stories will shock and annoy. In this programme we’ll hear outrageous retrospective stories, brought to life with talking heads from colleagues, bosses and the investigators that brought them to justice. Reconstructions will dramatise their journey of deceit – the initial circumstances that resulted in their sick claim, growing suspicions, and the eventual ‘gotcha’ moment when they’re finally caught out. In each case investigators will have been called in to uncover these suspected skivers and we use their original incriminating footage and photos to show first-hand the lengths these people will go to get a pay check for nothing.