Sick pay for a day?

hgm127

comeandgo wrote: »

Agree with Timbo regarding using sick days for appointments - to reduce your number of sick days you could use some of your leave as companies may use a formula to weed out people who continually take days here and there and it can be used as a reason to get rid of you.

I agree - but my company stipulates 4 weeks notice before your leave.

AP007

hgm127 wrote: »

But I am human and I do get sick from time to time. I would only ever take a day off if I really needed it, like I did this time, but I might think twice in future and just bring a sick bucket into work. If it saves me £70.;)

If you are sick you will have to take time off and things like that do happen.

comeandgo

I know the first few years of working is hard - there are some insurances that will pay you if you are off work but check them out as not all of them are suitable.

hgm127

comeandgo wrote: »

I know the first few years of working is hard - there are some insurances that will pay you if you are off work but check them out as not all of them are suitable.

Thanks, I will look into that if it happens again.

I long for the day I have enough in my savings that I don't have to worry about it. At the minute though, every single penny I earn is budgeted so losing £70 is a pretty big blow.

paddedjohn

OP, don't want to worry you but be prepared for a slight drop in your take home pay when your tax allowance evens out. My daughter is on a little over £20k and her monthly take home is roughly £1350 so it looks like you are paying a little less tax per month at the moment due to not earning anything so far this tax year, you will normally be getting around £1250 per month.

zzzLazyDaisy

If you are only on SSP the odd day off will normally cost you a days pay because of the three days 'waiting' rule in any period of sick leave. Odd days here and there will always fall into the unpaid 'waiting' period unless they count as linked periods of sickness, and frankly, if you are taking time of as regularly as that, you are in trouble anyway!

Also bear in mind that as you started with this employer after 5th April 2012, they can terminate your employment without even giving a reason, in the first two years (provided they don't breach the Equality Act and dismiss you for age race disability sex pregnancy etc). As you have just started, you would be well advised to keep your head down and not make waves...

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Mr_K

The results of your blood tests are more important maybe than the money lost ? Your health must be your first priority.

If you're off sick in future get signed off for at least a week, that's what this crazy system is encouraging you to do.

I've always been paid for sick days, one of the things you need to take into account in any contract, rather than just the wage.

arbroath_lass

Mr_K wrote: »

If you're off sick in future get signed off for at least a week, that's what this crazy system is encouraging you to do.
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Getting signed off for a week (and I don't know any gp that will do that as you self-cert for the first week) will cost the OP more than £70!

Mr_K

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

As you have just started, you would be well advised to keep your head down and not make waves...

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Pants.

Join a union and campaign for paid sick leave. Scrooge will soon seem like an excellent employer the way this country is going.

timbo58

Mr K -he's only just joined the company -be fair.
Scrooge might be a fair critique of some companies but not all & equally 'shirker/sponger' is fair/unfair of some employees.
Why should a good company pay sick pay left right & centre on a workers say so and risk the very real chance that the person claiming sick pay is just using it to take extra paid leave at the company's (often small) expense?
It's enough to put many small businesses over the edge into mass redundancies.

Obviously I am not saying this is the case with the OP, but as with many things in life, there are plenty of people who misuse generous sick leave policies and if everyones word could be trusted there would be no need for restrictive policies.

I absolutely encourage others to join unions but most workplaces are not unionised and all should be aware of the conditions they join employers under: if you think the terms of your contract are unfair you have the right to refuse to accept the job after all.

My employers a good one, but they still don't pay employers sick pay for the probationary 3 month period which the OP is still in (?) in any case.

It's a sad fact but it is often better to turn up for work 'unfit' and be sent home by a manager (and thus paid) than not turn up and go off sick.