Employees who are off sick for a whole holiday year still accrue statutory paid annual leave. But suppose they don’t request it, what’s the legal position then?
Published 30.11.2011
An employee who’s been signed off sick for two weeks has several weeks’ paid annual leave outstanding. As you only pay statutory sick pay during sick leave, they’ve asked to convert their sickness
absence to holiday. Is this OK?
Published 18.05.2020
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
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
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
Hot on the heels of an Employment Appeal Tribunal case on accrued annual leave during long-term sickness absence, comes a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union. So in this short space
of time has anything changed?
Published 14.12.2011
One of your employees recently handed in their notice. Since then they’ve been routinely calling in sick. Under the circumstances, you seriously doubt this is genuine. So can you simply refuse to pay
them any sick pay?
Published 10.04.2012
Some employers pay their staff in full during the first three days of any sickness absence, only stopping once SSP kicks-in. However, this type of practice can encourage sickies and increase your
costs. So how can it be ended?
Published 11.03.2013
An employee has just resigned giving you one month’s contractual notice. In addition, they’ve been signed off sick for six weeks. What are they entitled to be paid during their notice period - full
pay or sick pay, e.g. SSP only?
Published 09.02.2017