Gavan hold on a minute, I have been very vocal on this subject and received a lot of abuse but you are missing the point a bit. An employer is entitled to give any amount of paid or unpaid compassionate depending on how they view the circumstances. I will give you an example I had a major back operation about five years ago and my wife's company gave her compassionate leave to help me after surgery, now this was planned not an unforeseen accident. So as I said Matt ford could give him any amount of time off if he so chose to do so and there is no issue with that at all. The issue is the need for a doctors note and clearly there is no requirement for one as compassionate leave is at the employers discretion. So as I have said before the only person who required a doctors note was Matt Ford.