Normal salary on top of SSP?

No_Name

If a company does not general pay for sickness and have no occupational sick pay scheme in place, would it be acceptable for an employee to receive SSP along with normal salary to top up to normal level of earnings?

BrassicWoman

acceptable to the employee I am sure. Not generally the employer.

Marcon

If normal salary is added to SSP then they'd get more than their normal level of earnings.

If you mean SSP + a top up equal to (normal pay - SPP), why would an employer do that if they have no sick pay scheme in place? Could you give a bit more info - are you the employer of the hopeful employee?

ThemeOne

If there's no sick pay scheme you get SSP only. End of story.

TELLIT01

Marcon wrote: »

If normal salary is added to SSP then they'd get more than their normal level of earnings.

If you mean SSP + a top up equal to (normal pay - SPP), why would an employer do that if they have no sick pay scheme in place? Could you give a bit more info - are you the employer of the hopeful employee?

I agree with this. The OP really doesn't make any sense.

No_Name

If the company does not normally pay sick pay, can it not (at it's discretion) pay normal salary on top of SSP to take an employee's gross pay back to where it should be?


Example - normal pay of £1,500 pre-tax; entitled to £350 SSP, pay difference of £1,150 normal salary at company's discretion.


Or is it one or the other?

LilElvis

An employer can pay whatever it wants in addition to their legal and contractual obligations.

Steve_Kilgore

This is usually not a good deal for the employer.

No_Name

Not good for the employer hence discretionary.


So there's no stopping the employer from doing my example above, paying additional salary on top of SSP?

chrisbur

No_Name wrote: »

Not good for the employer hence discretionary.


So there's no stopping the employer from doing my example above, paying additional salary on top of SSP?

The employer can of course do this; but your problem is how do you persuade them to do it.

Manxman_in_exile

What an odd question.


OP - does this apply to all employees of the employer in question, or just one "special" employee?