Do you get paid for sick days?

[Kiltie]

Just wondering what proportion of (staff / perm / PAYE) folks get payed when off sick.

I mean in the shoty term - like less thn a week.

The reason I'm interested is that my employer is currently proposing that they'll no longer pay us for less than seven consecutive days off (thereafter, insurance kicks in).

As you can imagine, this has resulted in widespread apoplexy.

[SkinnyPete]

Yep.

we get full salary for as long as we are sick, even for elective surgery.

It is the only honest thing my employer does.

[Gargamel]

yes I get paid.

full pay for an indefinite period of time. if incpacittated and unable to return 75% for twelve months.

[GoneAnon]

Nothing for first three days off, then normal pay for two days, then just SSP. It's st.

[gd49]

3 months full pay, then a sliding scale depending on length of service, long termers get not far off a year full pay. Pretty unusual for my sector but I work for a large charity, most employers offer 5 days full pay over a rolling 12 month period. Triggers for sickness investigation are pretty strict at my work though.

[Funk]

Nope.

[DuraAce]

Full pay for us too. Good thing too as a colleague has been on sick for two years and counting...

[Terminator X]

Best cure for sickness, go self employed

TX.

[C0ffin D0dger]

Full pay here, permanent employee on PAYE. Lucky really as I had 6 weeks off at the start of this year due to a cancer scare, luckily I don't have cancer but could have been a much longer spell of absence if there had been something more serious going on.

[dingg]

Offshore employee

used to get 3 months full pay , 3 months half pay , then ssp

now get 85% of full pay for up to 6 months , thereafter ssp.

(too many people having a week off here and there) will it stop it I think not and fully expect a deterioration in the future

[21TonyK]

Terminator X said:

Best cure for sickness, go self employed

TX.

So true. My first day off sick in 7 years was 6 months into being employed!

[Driver101]

Years ago we didn't get paid for the first couple of days off. The company then changed it to getting paid from the start. Monday and Friday sickness went through the roof.

[Dr Jekyll]

Terminator X said:

Best cure for sickness, go self employed

TX.

Getting paid for not working, what a quaint concept.

[bigandclever]

Dr Jekyll said:

Terminator X said:

Best cure for sickness, go self employed

TX.

Getting paid for not working, what a quaint concept.

I firmly believe that working for myself has made me immortal

[phil-sti]

Nope, hence why I'm working with a broken foot.

[toon10]

Yes. I get paid the same salary whether I'm on holiday, have sick days or if I'm late. I'd rather contract and get paid a lot more than I do if I wanted the risk of not getting paid sick days.

[PorkInsider]

Full pay for a period of time that is at the company's discretion.

[Jasandjules]

Self employed....

[Turn7]

Get nowt AND usually use Holiday to cover any sickness.....

[R1 Indy]

Never understood this, why should you get paid for not being in work??