Salaried phased return to work

marliepanda

You're not sick though, you are well enough for 'light duties'

Its not a case of 'I'd get the same pay if i was sat at home' That's not how life works. Youre not sick enough to be 'sat at home' so now you wouldnt get the same pay as you wouldnt get the fit note.

Can you not do light duties for 100% of your contracted time?

sangie595

popeseye wrote: »

I think my work is actually making it up as they go along I don't!

we dont have a union, What you mean is that you haven't joined a union. A totally different thing.

like i say our sick pay is paid by an insurance policy if i was off sick sill i would be on 60% of my salaried wage paid two weekly, because my surgeon ticked the box phased return light duites for a month would benefit me the insurance company are no longer liable for payments because i am in effect back at work so payroll has taken upon its self to continue paying me at the reduced rate the same i might add i would get at home. now my issue is there is nothing in the hand book regarding phased return to work, nothing was said when i returned at upper manager level about hours or pay or duties ect ect i was just told to sort it out what suited me with my line manager, i just feel as though they could have let me know what was happening.before deducting my wages.

You are entirely mistaking the situation. Your employer does not pay sick pay. An insurance company pays you an amount of money when you are off sick. The employer is paying you nothing (or possibly SSP). The insurance company pays you when you are unfit to work. Not your employer.

At the point where your doctor advised you that you might be fit for work, the insurance company would have stopped paying you anything unless the employer said that they could not accept the terms of the fit note. So had you not returned you would have been sat at home with no income, except (and not even necessarily with) SSP. Insurance companies do not pay you to sit at home when you can work - even if that is just part time.

So you would not have had the same amount of money to sit at home - you would have had considerably less and possibly none.

Go back to the whole "your employer does not pay you sick pay" thing now. Since they do not actually pay you sick pay at all, they actually pay you only to be in work. If you are only in work part time, then they pay you pro rata. Ergo, if you want full time wages you need to work full-time.

Insurance companies are not in the habit of paying out because people want to claim, only when they must claim. You had no option, once the employer agreed that they would permit a phased return to work. And the employer does not control that decision, the insurance company does. Their only role in this, where a phased return is advised, would be to judge whether it is possible to accommodate the request.

theoretica

As this was an accident at work, keep track of all your loss of earnings to add to an insurance claim for the accident. Of course this doesn't help with cash flow issues now, but also keep proof of any extra charges you incur through being paid less.