No Pay When Off Sick

[mickbullen]

My granddaughter works full-time at a private nursery. She has a contract. She was once off sick for a day and didn't get paid, and was told that was the employer's policy. Is this right?

[becky2585]

Yes - SSP is only payable from the fourth day of absence - there's no entitlement to pay, unless her contract says otherwise (and its usually discretionary).

[mickbullen]

Thank you.

[ericsbrother]

will depend on contract but most companies in the care sector struggle to pay minimum wage let alone any benefits.

[Guest]

not just the care sector

 

i worked for a large company based at Canary Wharf 22 years ago (only for 10 months thank god)

 

was in your contract that you were not paid for the first 3 days off sick until you had worked there for a year , not allowed to join a union, could have your leave cancelled even if agreed and so on - nearly all of us had just come out of the forces so had no idea what employers could and couldn't do and were so used to doing as we were told with no argument that they got away with there rules/contracts

[SabreSheep]

not just the care sector

 

i worked for a large company based at Canary Wharf 22 years ago (only for 10 months thank god)

 

was in your contract that you were not paid for the first 3 days off sick until you had worked there for a year , not allowed to join a union, could have your leave cancelled even if agreed and so on - nearly all of us had just come out of the forces so had no idea what employers could and couldn't do and were so used to doing as we were told with no argument that they got away with there rules/contracts

 

really?

[Emmzzi]

sure, people wrote stuff like that in contracts 22 years ago... vaguley Im thinking trade union reform act 1993 but would need to double check

[obiter dictum]

Trade Union Labour Relations Consolidation Act 1992

[becky2585]

really?

 

Of course, that's now highly unlawful (and surprising in this day and age!).

[Guest]

Can confirm that we had it in our contracts that we were not allowed to be members of a union , i was working there from mid 1993-beginning of 1994 .

 

As i mentioned above , they recruited us straight from the forces (we were working for a security company that compared to other security companies paid very well and hours were much less than your average security) , as we all had spent several years ranging from 3 - 22 in the army/navy/airforce - the concept of unions and so on didnt really have much of a meaning to us , probably why they got away with it .....

 

Probably explains whey they only recruited ex-forces .....