Employer sick-note rules · manufacturing
Does Boeing accept an online doctor’s note?
Boeing's Puget Sound rules recognize a Medically Documented Absence. Documentation must reach Leave Services within ten calendar days of your return, by fax, to excuse it.
What Boeing (IAM 751 Puget Sound machinists) workers are told
Absences tracked
Puget Sound attendance requirements (effective May 21 2018): AWOL/extended absence → termination after 5 unexcused reported or unreported absences; progressive attendance discipline using Corrective Action Memos (CAMs); after the first Failure-to-Maintain CAM, medically documented absences become unexcused.
Note required
Medically Documented Absence (MDA): documentation must reach Leave Services within 10 calendar days of return to work; same-day medical care during working hours (16.10(d)) is excused if proof is brought on return. Sick leave, vacation in lieu of sick leave, FMLA or LOA cover absences.
Where to submit
Per the 2018 IAM 751 chart, fax MDA documents to Leave Services at 847-554-1913 using the coversheet on TotalAccess (confirm the number is still current on TotalAccess); FMLA and LOA also go through Boeing Leave Services.
Paid sick time
Contract sick leave; Washington paid sick leave (I-1433) integrated.
From published reporting on the policy · 2026-09-23
Sources, read 2026-09-23
The rules that sit above Boeing’s policy
Federal leave law lets an employer ask for medical certification and gives you at least 15 days to return it; disability law limits medical inquiries to what the job requires; twenty states and D.C. limit when any employer, Boeing included, may demand a note; and federal guidance treats a licensed physician’s online evaluation as telehealth. The statutes and sources are on the state-by-state doctor’s note law index and in are online doctor’s notes legal?
Other manufacturing employers
Tesla · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · General Motors · Stellantis
Every employer’s sick-note rule, in one list
SickSlip is not affiliated with Boeing (IAM 751 Puget Sound machinists). Employer names are used to describe their published policies. Reviewed by Adam Z. Kawalek, MD (NPI 1326223306). Facts checked 2026-09-23.