You can retrieve the electronic certificate of incapacity for work (eAU, also called eAttest) via your payroll program, for example. Keep two things in mind when retrieving it:
1) As an employer, the law requires you to retrieve the eAttest only if your employee has informed you that the doctor has issued an eAU.
2) Several days may pass between retrieving the eAU from the health insurer and the eAU arriving at the employer.
Therefore, it makes sense to allow the employee to indicate for sickness entries whether the doctor has issued an eAttest. HR should be able to record whether the eAttest has already been requested. And finally, you should record that the employer has received the eAttest.
Timebutler already stores this information automatically for all sickness entries. Read here how to [change the certificate status for a sickness entry(/absence-management/sick-leave/medical-certificate-status-in-sickness-entries/).
You can add the other two pieces of information using the [additional fields(/absence-management/custom-fields/overview-of-additional-fields/) feature in Timebutler. You can define any additional fields for each absence type. So create one or more additional fields for the Sickness absence type, for example as follows:
- “eAttest issued by the doctor”, Type: yes/no selection, entered by the employee
- “eAttest requested from the health insurer”, Type: yes/no selection, entered by the admin/HR
Read here how to [set up additional fields(/absence-management/custom-fields/overview-of-additional-fields/).
Read here how to [retrieve the electronic certificate of incapacity for work(/frequently-asked-questions/vacation-and-absences/electronic-certificate-of-incapacity-for-work-e-au/).