TA Sick Leave - Why Not?

cottlad

My wife is a full time employed TA. Apparently if she takes any time off sick she isn't paid. For any days! What????
She's been off for 2 days with a virus which is made worse by her heart condition and asthma and is currently munching 14 tablets/day. It makes her feel she has to get back to work far sooner than she should as she isn't being paid. Have obv told her health comes first but how is it legal not to be paid genuine sick days?

[Deleted User]

This should help:

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/rights-at-work/sick-pay/check-if-youre-entitled-to-sick-pay/

Blatchford

cottlad wrote: »

My wife is a full time employed TA. Apparently if she takes any time off sick she isn't paid. For any days! What????
She's been off for 2 days with a virus which is made worse by her heart condition and asthma and is currently munching 14 tablets/day. It makes her feel she has to get back to work far sooner than she should as she isn't being paid. Have obv told her health comes first but how is it legal not to be paid genuine sick days?

This has nothing to do with whether she is genuinely sick or not. It has to do with whether she has entitlement to contractual sick pay. If not, and it appears not, then she is only entitled to SSP, and nobody is paid SSP for the first three days of illness. After that, if she qualifies, she will be given SSP. I presume she knows her contractual position about sick pay?

[Deleted User]

cottlad wrote: »

Apparently if she takes any time off sick she isn't paid. For any days! What????

This is par for much of the workforce.

One of my old employers even fines it's employees who go off sick (and no it's not a courier company or even some small company).

Blatchford

Deleted%20User wrote: »

This is par for much of the workforce.

One of my old employers even fines it's employees who go off sick (and no it's not a courier company or even some small company).

Really? That sounds most unlikely since it would be illegal! Just what kind of employers do you work for? You seem to have some very strange ideas about what is acceptable employment.

Owain_Moneysaver

You can get £94.25 per week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if you’re too ill to work. It’s paid by your employer for up to 28 weeks.

You need to qualify for SSP and have been off work sick for 4 or more days in a row (including non-working days).

You cannot get less than the statutory amount. You can get more if your company has a sick pay scheme (or ‘occupational scheme’) - check your employment contract.

https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay

Wyndham

TA? Territorial Army or Teaching Assistant? Or something else? I ask as I don't understand but feel my two examples would get very different replies.....

suki1964

Blatchford wrote: »

Really? That sounds most unlikely since it would be illegal! Just what kind of employers do you work for? You seem to have some very strange ideas about what is acceptable employment.

I take whatever that poster writes with a complete pinch of salt

She appears to either live in a completely different dimension from the rest of us, or is completely bladdered when posting

cottlad

thx for the replies. Every normal job i've ever had on salary, it isn't docked for sick days. Judging by the replies it seems that's not always the case. I just found that surprising.

Teaching assistant btw, not terry army

74jax

suki1964 wrote: »

I take whatever that poster writes with a complete pinch of salt

She appears to either live in a completely different dimension from the rest of us, or is completely bladdered when posting

But she does have a very strange bunch of friends. Everything has happened to either her, a friend, a friend of a friend, or the owner of the dog who once walked down the street of the owner of the cat who she saw go into the vets with the neighbours millman......

Every possible scenario she knows someone its happened too. She must live in her own drama series.

74jax

cottlad wrote: »

thx for the replies. Every normal job i've ever had on salary, it isn't docked for sick days. Judging by the replies it seems that's not always the case. I just found that surprising.

Teaching assistant btw, not terry army

Just because your jobs work one way doesn't mean that's how it is, and if it isn't the same it must be illegal. Employment is a minefield.......

I've learnt not to offer advice etc on hardly anything employment wise - unless it's my company, and if Im pushed I just say to read the contract and gov.Co.UK.... :rotfl: