Sick Pay during notice period.

PinkFlamingo16 wrote: »

Hi,


My company policy on Statutory sick pay states: It is the Company's legal obligation to pay SSP providing the employee qualifies. If the employee works more than 32 hours they will certainly qualify for SSP, regardless of length of service. SSP is paid from the fourth day of the Period of Incapacity to Work up to and including the 28th week, providing the relevant criteria have been met.

As I only had 3 days off sick and had no GP medical certificate, does it mean I am not entitled to company sick pay or statutory sick pay,

Thanks in advance.

This is a slightly inaccurate and over-simplified description of SSP. Though it is unlikely you would have qualified for any SSP payment, but it is possible you might.
To be considered for SSP you do need to be sick and to have done no work for a period of four consecutive days, but these do not need to be working days, so if your three days off were say Monday to Wednesday and you were sick also on the Sunday before (a non-working day) that would count as a PIW for SSP purposes.
However even then this would not get you any pay as the first three working days are unpaid unless you had an earlier PIW which links with it by being separated by a period of no more than eight weeks. Any waiting days served during this earlier linked PIW would count for the new PIW. So if you had already served three waiting days then you would be paid for all of the three working days you were off sick. If you had served two waiting days then you would serve one more and be paid for two days this time and so on.