Sick pay & being told not entitled too it

Sonicboom75uk

My daughter has started a so called apprentaship in child care & gets paid £2.60 a hr 40hr a week she took a week of & was told she don't get sick pay she has took a other week off so I told her to get a sic note as she earns more then £102 a week but still they say she is not entiteld to ssp ?
Help & advice Woud be nice
Thanks sonicboom

paddedjohn

Has your daughter been given a ssp1 form by her employer explaining why she is not entitled to ssp? Is an apprenticship classed as training or employment?

Sonicboom75uk

Well she started the placement in June last year & was told she was on a 3 mth trail & that's when the course would start how ever they still didn't star her on the course / training & still not how ever I spoke to the training provider & they should of started her with 4 weeks how ever that's an other post lol so I am not sure if she is classed as trainee but the pay her apprentaship pay of £2.60 a hr I think there just using her for cheap labour ..!

Sonicboom75uk

Oh & she is now pregant

hcb42

as she is just over the £102 per week on the NMW for apprenticeships, I would think she qualifies - however if not for reasons not known here to us - they need to give her the SSP1

paddedjohn

Sonicboom75uk wrote: »

Well she started the placement in June last year & was told she was on a 3 mth trail & that's when the course would start how ever they still didn't star her on the course / training & still not how ever I spoke to the training provider & they should of started her with 4 weeks how ever that's an other post lol so I am not sure if she is classed as trainee but the pay her apprentaship pay of £2.60 a hr I think there just using her for cheap labour ..!

OP, you hint above that your daughter is not yet an apprentice but if that is the case then she should be earning at least £3.68/hr or £4.98/hr depending on her age