Should my employer tell me about SSP

megadishu

So should my employer automatically put me on SSP? I have not been off for more than 7 days in a row but have had an awful lot of time off

fed_up_and_stressed

There is a very useful guide about the qualifying crieria for ssp on the hmrc website ..its the employer handbook for statutory sick pay

megadishu

Thank you. I will have a look. I have felt pushed a bit as was sent an email saying how good they have been to me in paying when I was off sick and that I should be happy with that.

Poppie68

If you were recieving full pay while you were off sick then you resigned, they were under no obligation to inform you of SSP.

Torry_Quine

megadishu wrote: »

Thank you. I will have a look. I have felt pushed a bit as was sent an email saying how good they have been to me in paying when I was off sick and that I should be happy with that.

You don't get SSP as well as your normal pay, you get it if your employer doens't pay you while off sick!

marybelle01

You also don't get SSP for odd days off here and there - it isn't payable until the fourth day of sickness, and you get nothing for the first three days. It sounds like you may never have had enough time off at once to qualify for sick pay. But I am not clear what your complaint is - they paid you full pay, so what are you wanting to prove they didn't do in looking after you? It seems you were looked after!

AP007

megadishu wrote: »

Thank you. I will have a look. I have felt pushed a bit as was sent an email saying how good they have been to me in paying when I was off sick and that I should be happy with that.

You got full pay when off sick? You don't get SSP then or you think you do?

McKneff

I didn't realise till now that you were on full pay when you were off sick!!!


You surely cant have expected to have been on full pay and receive SSP too.


If you had said this in your first post the answers would have been completely different and there would probably only actually have been one reply anyway.....


Please, if you ask for help in the future, can you put exact details into posts. It would save everyones time, including yours.

megadishu

Actually my question was not whether I could get SSP and full pay but was to ask if there was a duty of care on behalf of the employer. I realise that I should not have resigned and stayed on being sick which now would have gone on to SSP after full pay.


I actually was on full pay but offered to go on less hours as I was being off a lot, so maybe doubly stupid.


What is sad is that I did not find out about entitlement due to not having a contract and no clue about my sick pay entitlement - i.e. how long I would be paid full pay, part time pay etc whilst off sick.


When I reduced my hours I was due about £2k in commission which was taken away from me. However, I loved my job, like the company and felt morally that I was doing the right thing as it would have been difficult for them to employ somebody else whilst paying me.


So sorry if I have wasted anybody's time, but my question was in hope that I had missed something that somebody else knew that I did not.


It seems forget your conscience and do not resign but let a company keep paying, go onto whatever sick pay you can get and screw the rest of them!

ableandy

When did you resign?