A landmark court case in the UK has ruled that it is okay to call in sick to work and still show up to the pub later for beers.
British man, Colin Kane from Newcastle appeared before the British courts to appeal his own sacking after being spotted at the pub drinking and smoking by his boss. Kane had reportedly called in sick to work that day with a sore cough.
The landmark case saw judge, Andrea Pitt overturn the charges, deeming the allegations that led to the man's unemployment to be unjust.
Honorable Justice Pitt ruled, “There is no rule the company can point to, which says that an employee cannot socialise in whatever way they deem appropriate whilst absent from work through illness”