You only pay Statutory Sick Pay when staff are off sick. You suspect that an employee’s recent absence wasn’t genuine. If so, must you still pay him, and if not, what procedure should you follow?
Published 15.06.2006
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
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
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
Let’s suppose that a new employee has gone off sick in their first few days of employment. They’ve not yet received a salary payment, so are they entitled to Statutory Sick Pay?
Published 02.05.2013
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
Many smaller employers pay statutory sick pay (SSP) only during sickness absence. However, it seems that many employees don’t know what SSP is or how long it will last for. What are the rules?
Published 27.02.2018
A subscriber recently granted an employee’s last-minute holiday request so they could go skiing. But the only winter break they got was one in their leg! The question is: are they entitled to sick
pay as the injury was their own fault?
Published 24.03.2010
With new research showing that Britain is fast becoming the plastic surgery capital of Europe, what’s the situation for paying staff company sick pay or even SSP if they decide to go under the knife
for some bodywork?
Published 22.03.2007