Statutory Sick Pay/Broken Arm?

anewloginapparently

A good friend of mine works in a council run day centre through an agency full-time as well as working a few shifts a month at a care home as bank staff (not through the same agency).

However she broke her wrist at the weekend and now the day care centre have told her not to bother coming in til she is out of plaster for insurance/health & safety reasons. As she is agency she has been told they won't pay her anything while she is off and she has to go to the job centre to claim statutory sick pay. Is this correct? What is the process she needs to go through to claim this? Is it right her employer (the agency) have basically said it's nothing to do with them, seems a bit out of order that.

It's only about £80 a week too isn't it? About 1/3rd what she is paid by the day centre. Seems pretty unfair when she is willing to work still and can fufil 99% of her role, but they're saying if there was an emergency then she would be useful and are refusing to pay her.

The care home are being far more accommodating and saying that she can still do an occasional shift there but would I be right in thinking if she picked up any shifts there she wouldn't get any statutory sick pay? So she's losing out twice!

Feel pretty sorry for her as this little accident is really going to mess up her World financially.

alwaysonthego_2

She would have to claim SSP.

She could claim SSP from one job and work in another as long as the first employer agreed and it was a different type of work. For example a milkman who hurt is back prevented him from delivering milk, but he could work in an office, in this instance he could claim SSP and there is no limit on how much he can earn in the other job. [This info can be found in the Disabilities Rights Handbook].

If you provide more info such as does she have children, live with a partner, we could look if she was entitled to anything else.

anewloginapparently

alwaysonthego wrote: »

She would have to claim SSP.

She could claim SSP from one job and work in another as long as the first employer agreed and it was a different type of work. For example a milkman who hurt is back prevented him from delivering milk, but he could work in an office, in this instance he could claim SSP and there is no limit on how much he can earn in the other job. [This info can be found in the Disabilities Rights Handbook].

If you provide more info such as does she have children, live with a partner, we could look if she was entitled to anything else.

Thanks for that, she is single and lives with her mother and little sister. She is the main bread winner in the house & pays for most of the bills and mortgage (her mother lost her job & only works part time).

Both jobs are in care though so not sure how the first thing will work. The irony being the job which is happy for her to work is much more physical than the job which wont let her. She's perfectly capable of fufilling all her duties with a broken arm but they won't let her work for "insurance reasons".

NASA_2

The Jobcentre do not pay SSP - the employer does.