I should just make sure my medical note was submitted to the company's third party absence management center (which I did my first day back).
There's your mistake. Your boss said to submit your note, and you wouldn't need to call each day. You've stopped calling, but didn't submit the note until you came back. If the note says you are going to be off for a certain time, get it to them as soon as you can, especially if it's a third party who deal with it.
If you don't have the note, keep calling (no matter how irate your boss gets, if you are going to do it for several days ask him if there is someone in HR you could call instead).
Your boss will not be backing you up as he'll have HR breathing down his neck saying you didn't submit a note as they won't have had visibility.
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I was struck with a serious illness and had to stay home for several days so I began to call my boss each day to inform him of my status. He told me it wasn't necessary to call him "every single day" while I was out sick (he seemed annoyed) and that I should just make sure my medical note was submitted to the company's third party absence management center (which I did my first day back). The following week he called me to a meeting with HR, they told me he hadn't received word from them that the note was submitted and since I hadn't kept in touch with him every day, they would have to suspend me for two weeks without pay. I let them know that I was following my boss's instruction & that they could confirm with the absence management center that I followed procedure but my words fell on deaf ears. Two days after I returned to work, the absence management center confirmed that the medical note was received. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can help prevent this sort of misunderstanding in the future? Could you shed any light as to my boss's behavior? Thanks.