Sick pay dispute, any advice appreciated

Evilm

Self certify form can be got here: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/sc2.pdf

Your work might have a specific form they use as well as this though.

And its 7 calendar days so you don't need a proper note from a doctor.

From what I can see they should have deducted 4 days and paid you 1 day SSP. So they owe you 2 days back and the SSP day.

Savvy_Sue

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

Did you fill out a 'why I was off sick' form?

And have you asked for the sickness policy?

Ah, that is a good point: if the OP is fairly new to the world of work then it's one of those things that you'd hope a good employer would notify you about, but it doesn't seem this is that good an employer.

I'm debating with myself whether the employer should have given the 'why we're not paying SSP' form, but then without the SC2 they may have argued that it was an unauthorised absence rather than a sickness absence.

Evilm wrote: »

Self certify form can be got here: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/sc2.pdf

Your work might have a specific form they use as well as this though.

Yes, so that's worth checking out for future reference, what you actually need to do as well as phoning in sick. (Note to self, must check DS2 knows what to do if he's ever sick ...)

Evilm wrote: »

From what I can see they should have deducted 4 days and paid you 1 day SSP. So they owe you 2 days back and the SSP day.

From the first post, it looks as if the OP was only deducted their working days, not the two non-working days. Therefore just the SSP to be paid.

Evilm

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

From the first post, it looks as if the OP was only deducted their working days, not the two non-working days. Therefore just the SSP to be paid.

Ah. I'm sure that they'd said they'd been deducted 6 days not 4. Thanks.