Sick pay while suspended

Takeaway_Addict

Monty, you need to look after yourself first and foremost, as others have said its a job at the end of the day, you have left others and got others. You can and will get another one if this one goes down south but fight your corner but you need to realise that when it goes bad that you need to get out with the best deal you can.

Southend1

monty-doggy wrote: »

I went to tribunal over unfair TUPE transfer and I won. Didn't realise you now have to pay and it's all changed, seems to me unless you've money to fight, employers can do what they want.

For the benefit of other posters, please be aware that most unions will now cover tribunal fees in union supported cases. It is so important to join a union, I just can't believe that many people still don't.

monty-doggy

My colleague is very close to my area manager who can't keep anything confidential. He has told me I'm going to be dismissed.

Why bother going to the meeting?

Takeaway_Addict

monty-doggy wrote: »

My colleague is very close to my area manager who can't keep anything confidential. He has told me I'm going to be dismissed.

Why bother going to the meeting?

Why not? It could be the grape vine playing havoc

jacques_chirac

monty-doggy wrote: »

My colleague is very close to my area manager who can't keep anything confidential. He has told me I'm going to be dismissed.

Why bother going to the meeting?

Because you'll always regret not having the chance to give your side of the story.

I would reiterate my suggestion of asking about leaving with an agreed neutral reference, but if you do want to do this it needs to be before the disciplinary.

agrinnall

Can you confirm whether you are suspended on full pay or on no pay? If it's full pay then I can't see what benefit there would have been to you being signed off, because you were already being paid for not going to work. If it's a suspension without pay then presumably that would be for something very serious, so I can see why your employer might want to avoid having to pay sick pay rather than nothing. Whether that is a sustainable position in law I don't know, and without union support I don't know whether you will ever find out.

Takeaway_Addict

Southend1 wrote: »

For the benefit of other posters, please be aware that most unions will now cover tribunal fees in union supported cases. It is so important to join a union, I just can't believe that many people still don't.

If the employee wins with the union support does the union request the money back?

paulineb_2

monty-doggy wrote: »

My colleague is very close to my area manager who can't keep anything confidential. He has told me I'm going to be dismissed.

Why bother going to the meeting?

Ive already said on the other thread that you can ask to put written submissions in if you really are too unwell to attend the meeting.

Ive been in situations where I knew I was going to be sacked, knew I didn't deserve it, but after one really awful offensive meeting that made my stress worse, I asked them to hear my disciplinary in my absence and they did

If you really are suffering badly from work related stress and cannot go back, then ask them to hear it, put your submissions in, wait for the outcome and then you can appeal it.

You either fight this or you don't and I absolutely do know what its like to work in rotten jobs with rotten employers, but its not the end of the world, being sacked if that's what it does come to, still isn't the end of the world.

monty-doggy

Suspended on full pay

Signed off sick as I'm not fit to attend the disciplinary as yet

paulineb_2

Im assuming the full pay stopped when you put the sick line in?