OMG. SSP completely unfair!!

Barmy76

I have just found out that someone working 2 part time jobs can claim SSP from both employers who are legally obliged to pay the full amount even though the person works part time.  effectively means that someon working 2 part timejobs can claim double the SSP that someone working 1 full time job can.   How on earth is this fair??   

BrassicWoman

Please do explain how an easy system of splitting it between 2 employers, with unlinked payrolls, would work. 

TELLIT01

Many things in the benefits system can be viewed as unfair - if you don't fall into the category which does 'benefit' from the anomaly.

It's also not as simple as somebody working 2 part time jobs automatically getting SSP twice.  Their earning on each job need to reach the threshold for entitlement.

If you want to get the system changed you need to speak to your MP and get their help.

tizerbelle

Sorry to break it to you but the same ruling applies to all types of statutory pay so statutory maternity / paternity and adoption pay as well

DullGreyGuy

Barmy76 said:

I have just found out that someone working 2 part time jobs can claim SSP from both employers who are legally obliged to pay the full amount even though the person works part time.  effectively means that someon working 2 part timejobs can claim double the SSP that someone working 1 full time job can.   How on earth is this fair??   

Its practical rather than fair

Marcon

Barmy76 said:

I have just found out that someone working 2 part time jobs can claim SSP from both employers who are legally obliged to pay the full amount even though the person works part time.  effectively means that someon working 2 part timejobs can claim double the SSP that someone working 1 full time job can.   How on earth is this fair??   

Fair to whom?

TELLIT01

The simple but sad truth is that if Statutory Sick Pay was higher more people would be off sick!

Grumpy_chap

tizerbelle said:

Sorry to break it to you but the same ruling applies to all types of statutory pay so statutory maternity / paternity and adoption pay as well

I am not 100% that is correct.
Isn't there shared parental leave pay now?  That requires the unconnected employers of both parents to liaise somehow - surely they would twig if a third employer was introduced...

EnPointe

TELLIT01 said:

The simple but sad truth is that if Statutory Sick Pay was higher more people would be off sick!

 evidence base for that assertion 

 and  before you  you use  Police , Fire fighters or nHS staff   and their occupational sick pay arrangements please  get ann understanding of the risk of  those roles and the requirements for  sickness absence  in excess of those acceptable  for  normal office dwellers etc 

Marcon

Grumpy_chap said:

tizerbelle said:

Sorry to break it to you but the same ruling applies to all types of statutory pay so statutory maternity / paternity and adoption pay as well

I am not 100% that is correct.
Isn't there shared parental leave pay now?  That requires the unconnected employers of both parents to liaise somehow - surely they would twig if a third employer was introduced...

https://maternityaction.org.uk/advice/rights-for-parents-with-more-than-one-job/

Kirkmain

Barmy76 said:

I have just found out that someone working 2 part time jobs can claim SSP from both employers who are legally obliged to pay the full amount even though the person works part time.  effectively means that someon working 2 part timejobs can claim double the SSP that someone working 1 full time job can.   How on earth is this fair??   

Just wait until you find out a hospital consultant or GP who earns £150,000 a year gets 6months pay and 6 months half pay when they are off sick. They can not work for a whole year for all manner of reasons, including self declared "anxiety" or "burnout" or "depression" and be paid £122,500, plus employer NI and pension contributions for that year. How on earth is this fair??