Re: Employer and non-urgent surgery
Your employer is wrong on all accounts.
a) it doesn't matter whether the operation is "urgent" or not. If there is a medical need and it is recommended by a doctor, then that's what it is. It is not up to your employer, or even you for that matter, to decide on the medical urgency. Your employer's "permission" is utterly irrelevant.
b) all medically relevant surgeries count as sickness and subsequently count as sickness-related absence. The one exception are purely cosmetic surgeries/beauty OPs.
c) you are therefore under no obligation whatsoever to compensate your time off in any way, let alone is this ground to terminate your employment early. In fact if he terminates you clearly based on this pending operation, it would be illegal.
d) you were not obliged to discuss the date of surgery, also because of a). Your doctor recommended to have it and set the date, end of story. You could have asked out of courtesy, but you had no obligation to do so. The only reason he tells you you should have discussed it is because he would have told you to have it after your employment is terminated
e) he doesn't even have to pay you for that time, your insurance (Krankentaggeld) is covering your salary why you're away for your operation. And I'm sure he'll survive three days without you.
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