Sick days on pay slip: rights and obligations

Questioner

Earlier you were asked the question: April 14, 2015, 2:00 PM: Is the employer obliged to state the sick days on the pay slip? My employer says that it is no longer necessary for the UWV. Your response: This is not mandatory, but it is useful for the employer and employee. My question: Sick days seem like private data to me. If they are on the pay slip, they are also known to financial institutions when applying for a mortgage, for example. The financial institution can therefore draw conclusions or ask questions that are not applicable. So my question is: is an employer allowed to mention sick days on a pay slip?

Lawyer

First of all: I am not a lawyer, so I cannot answer the specific question you are asking. However: for a mortgage application, you can black out any part of the payslip that is not relevant to the application with a permanent marker or otherwise censor it if you do not feel comfortable sharing this information. The fact that this information is on the payslip does not mean that you also have to share it with agencies that need part of the information on that slip. For this reason, I suspect that it is also not a problem if sick days are stated on it.