An employee has informed you that he’s having a vasectomy soon and will need to be off for a few days. You don’t think he’s entitled to any paid sick leave as the procedure isn’t for medical reasons.
What’s the situation?
Published 24.03.2014
From 6 April 2014 you will no longer be required to maintain minimum statutory sick pay (SSP) records. Does that mean you can forget about keeping employee sickness absence records altogether?
Published 25.02.2014
One of your employees telephoned in sick a week ago and remains unwell. However, they’ve not yet provided you with a fit note from their GP which states that they are “not fit for work”. Can you
withhold payment of statutory sick pay (SSP) in this situation?
Published 05.04.2023
Emergency legislation has been brought into force which temporarily allows employees to self-certify for 28 days instead of the usual seven days for statutory sick pay purposes. When do the
temporary rules apply?
Published 13.01.2022
An employee was badly injured while participating in a sporting activity and has been signed off work for several weeks. As it’s a self-inflicted injury, must you pay them during their sickness
absence and, if so, how much?
Published 02.10.2015
One in three people are now classed as obese. Instead of dieting many are opting for gastric band surgery to shed those extra kilos. So where do you stand on the issue of sick pay if an employee
decides to go down this route?
Published 04.11.2009
Following the coronavirus outbreak, the government is introducing emergency legislation to make statutory sick pay (SSP) payable from the first day of absence. What do you need to know, and are those
who self-isolate entitled to SSP?
Published 26.03.2020
Over the past few years, laser eye surgery has grown in popularity. Should an employee decide to have it done, must you grant any time off required as “sick leave” and do they have a right to be paid
during their absence?
Published 07.11.2011
Employees will often look for ways to try it on at your expense. One trick is to get signed off sick just before they’re due to go on holiday and then say that they shouldn’t lose that leave. If this
happens, how should you deal with it?
Published 30.04.2009
One of our subscribers has an employee who’s arguing that working for part of the day before going home sick counts towards the qualifying period for calculating SSP. Is this right, and if not, how
do you calculate his entitlement?
Published 15.12.2005