using holiday towards sick pay

cazzzie987

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

McKneff

I wouldn't think that you could get paid both in the same weeks
But nothing to stop you from asking 

General_Grant

cazzzie987 said:

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

6 weeks absence
could be
4 weeks full sick pay
1 week half pay
1 week holiday (so full pay)

cazzzie987

General_Grant said:

cazzzie987 said:

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

6 weeks absence
could be
4 weeks full sick pay
1 week half pay
1 week holiday (so full pay)

So I couldn't have 1 week fully paid with the unpaid week covered by holiday? 

General_Grant

cazzzie987 said:

General_Grant said:

cazzzie987 said:

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

6 weeks absence
could be
4 weeks full sick pay
1 week half pay
1 week holiday (so full pay)

So I couldn't have 1 week fully paid with the unpaid week covered by holiday? 

After the 4 weeks on full pay you can either be paid sick pay (half pay in your case) or holiday pay not both at the same time.
Would you have enough holiday to request two weeks as holiday and forgo the additional sick pay.

cazzzie987

General_Grant said:

cazzzie987 said:

General_Grant said:

cazzzie987 said:

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

6 weeks absence
could be
4 weeks full sick pay
1 week half pay
1 week holiday (so full pay)

So I couldn't have 1 week fully paid with the unpaid week covered by holiday? 

After the 4 weeks on full pay you can either be paid sick pay (half pay in your case) or holiday pay not both at the same time.
Would you have enough holiday to request two weeks as holiday and forgo the additional sick pay.

No I wouldn't :-(

getmore4less

Contractual sick pay is often discretionary. 

Nothing to stop the company offering and extra week full pay and let you take a week of holiday. 

Undervalued

cazzzie987 said:

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

Only if your employer chooses to allow you to do so. They don't have to although many / most will as it is arguably a benefit to them as well as for you.

General_Grant

Undervalued said:

cazzzie987 said:

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

Only if your employer chooses to allow you to do so. They don't have to although many / most will as it is arguably a benefit to them as well as for you.

So that would mean that for the final two weeks there would be pay for one week's holiday but spread over two weeks so only half of each is holiday and yet they are getting the benefit of a full week (at half pay) of sick leave when only half of the week is sick leave (ie not possible to have sick leave and annual leave for the same time).

Undervalued

General_Grant said:

Undervalued said:

cazzzie987 said:

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

Only if your employer chooses to allow you to do so. They don't have to although many / most will as it is arguably a benefit to them as well as for you.

So that would mean that for the final two weeks there would be pay for one week's holiday but spread over two weeks so only half of each is holiday and yet they are getting the benefit of a full week (at half pay) of sick leave when only half of the week is sick leave (ie not possible to have sick leave and annual leave for the same time).

Yes it would. However, as I say, given that the employer can refuse any holiday request (as long as the employee is allowed to take it at some point in the year, when the employer chooses) they have the whip hand.

getmore4less

General_Grant said:

Undervalued said:

cazzzie987 said:

Hi,
I have a question about sick pay. I am off sick now and entitled to 4 weeks fully paid sick pay and 4 weeks half pay. 
I am now in the half pay part and my question is if I am off six weeks, I would lose a weeks pay. Could I use a weeks holiday to cover this? 
Thanks

Only if your employer chooses to allow you to do so. They don't have to although many / most will as it is arguably a benefit to them as well as for you.

So that would mean that for the final two weeks there would be pay for one week's holiday but spread over two weeks so only half of each is holiday and yet they are getting the benefit of a full week (at half pay) of sick leave when only half of the week is sick leave (ie not possible to have sick leave and annual leave for the same time).

Employer can choose to give an extra week on full pay and none for the following week.
That week  can then use up holiday.