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Injured at work - Agency worker
trillion
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A close friend is an agency worker in a packaging factory and was injured at work today.
Briefly, he was changing a component on a machine and a co-worker came in and switched the machine on.
Result is four badly crushed fingers and although it's not possible at this stage to say if there is permanent damage, he has been signed off for 2 weeks by the hospital doctor.
First question is - are agency workers entitled to sick pay?
Second question is about a personal injury claim.
How would one go about claiming without running the risk of having to hand your compensation over to a company who will spend it all on dramatic adverts and cold calls?
Briefly, he was changing a component on a machine and a co-worker came in and switched the machine on.
Result is four badly crushed fingers and although it's not possible at this stage to say if there is permanent damage, he has been signed off for 2 weeks by the hospital doctor.
First question is - are agency workers entitled to sick pay?
Second question is about a personal injury claim.
How would one go about claiming without running the risk of having to hand your compensation over to a company who will spend it all on dramatic adverts and cold calls?
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Agency workers are entitled to sick pay if the client company are keeping the job open for them to return to. If they are replaced, ie the contract is brought to an end, then they need an SP1 from the agency to state the reason they are not entitled to SSP and they make a claim at the job centre.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/ssp1-08-print.pdf
As for PI, no idea,sorry."On behalf of teachers, I'd like to dedicate this award to Michael Gove and I mean dedicate in the Anglo Saxon sense which means insert roughly into the anus of." My hero, Mr Steer.0
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