Ssp

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Assume its your wife so Agenda for change - http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/pay-and-reward/nhs-terms-and-conditions/nhs-terms-and-conditions-of-service-handbook/sickness-absence-section-14aengland

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[quote=[Deleted User];71579796]Ah I thought the government paid this to employers who then just topped it up.[/QUOTE]

No, that is a popular misconception!

Until fairly recently small employers could get the SSP back in a round about way but that is no longer the case. If an employee qualifies for SSP then the employer is obliged by law to pay it. As said earlier anything over and above that is a contractual matter and there are plenty of jobs that don't provide company sick pay at all.

Six months full pay followed by six months half pay used to be common in the NHS, civil service, large universities etc but is being cut back more and more for new entrants. Few private sector jobs offer anything like that much sick pay!