SSP and Employee sick pay

KarenWhite2023

Hi
I was unwell and off work in hospital and recovering at home from 30th April 2022 to first week of August 2022.  I was paid the first 3 days full sick pay and then SSP after this.
After I returned to work I have some days off for residual recovery in Sept, Nov and Dec 2022.  At what point would I have these days paid as my employer has been asking me to make up the additional time I had to take off work and not pay me any contractual sick pay.  I can't seem to find a specific answer to find out when contractual sick pay is reinstituted and whether if I could not have made up all of these hours, that it will now be taken out of my pay this financial year.
Many thanks in advance 
Karen

Undervalued

KarenWhite2023 said:

Hi
I was unwell and off work in hospital and recovering at home from 30th April 2022 to first week of August 2022.  I was paid the first 3 days full sick pay and then SSP after this.
After I returned to work I have some days off for residual recovery in Sept, Nov and Dec 2022.  At what point would I have these days paid as my employer has been asking me to make up the additional time I had to take off work and not pay me any contractual sick pay.  I can't seem to find a specific answer to find out when contractual sick pay is reinstituted and whether if I could not have made up all of these hours, that it will now be taken out of my pay this financial year.
Many thanks in advance 
Karen

There isn't one, it depends entirely on the terms of your employer's company sick pay scheme (if they have one)!

Your employer is obliged to pay you SSP after the third day of absence. Despite the name, the employer and not the government meets the cost. By the sound of it your company chooses to pay in full for the first three days?

Whilst a few company sick pay schemes are a hard and fast contractual entitlement, that is becoming far less common. Most are now "discretionary" and any details of timescales etc are a guide to their normal policy and not a guarantee.

KarenWhite2023

So they can choose not to pay me for any sick pay after I've come back to work if I've had SSP during the FY?

chrisbur

KarenWhite2023 said:

So they can choose not to pay me for any sick pay after I've come back to work if I've had SSP during the FY?

The position regarding company sick pay and SSP are two separate things.  As advised the question of company sick pay will depend on your contract with your employer.  For SSP there are rules which your employer must follow, to start with you must be unfit for work and have done no work for any four consecutive days (do not need to be working days) , if you feel that this applies to the time off during Sept/Nov/Dec to check for entitlement would need to know date of last day of sickness in August then dates of sickness Sept/Nov/Dec, which days were working days, and was any SSP paid in the eight weeks before the first day of the April/Aug sickness.

Savvy_Sue

KarenWhite2023 said:

So they can choose not to pay me for any sick pay after I've come back to work if I've had SSP during the FY?

Possibly. Especially as your employer may have a limit on the amount of company sick pay - ours is 2 weeks full pay, 2 weeks half pay in the first year, increasing after that. And ours is on a 'rolling year' basis, so by now you'd have tipped over into year 2 (if you hadn't already been there longer than that), so you might become eligible for CSP during a period of sickness. 

Check what your contract says ... 

General_Grant

KarenWhite2023 said:

Hi
I was unwell and off work in hospital and recovering at home from 30th April 2022 to first week of August 2022.  I was paid the first 3 days full sick pay and then SSP after this.
After I returned to work I have some days off for residual recovery in Sept, Nov and Dec 2022.  At what point would I have these days paid as my employer has been asking me to make up the additional time I had to take off work and not pay me any contractual sick pay.  I can't seem to find a specific answer to find out when contractual sick pay is reinstituted and whether if I could not have made up all of these hours, that it will now be taken out of my pay this financial year.
Many thanks in advance 
Karen

What does that mean?  I haven't heard of "residual recovery" before.  Were you ill?

KarenWhite2023

Still recovering from the period of illness I was off long term for.  For an example as my stomach had a relapse and I had sickness and D

chrisbur

KarenWhite2023 said:

Still recovering from the period of illness I was off long term for.  For an example as my stomach had a relapse and I had sickness and D

Regarding the possible entitlement to SSP can you give the details I asked for above.