Sickness/dependency leave pay

[Timja]

How many days sickness/dependency leave does your company pay at full pay before just paying SSP?

I just wanted to see whether what we do is usual, bad or generous?

Thanks,

Tim.

[bogie]

6 months full pay, 6 months 1/2 pay, then long term sick pay via 3rd party insurance critical illness benefit which is about 40% but virtually indefinitely

edit to add: 500 people US company, approx $1B revenue

Edited by bogie on Thursday 27th November 18:36

[Bernie-the-bolt]

10 days in a rolling year at my discretion then onto SSP.

[Timja]

One other question which i would imagine may be relevant (especailly after the 2 replies so far being quite different) is what size company do you own/work for?

Cheers,

Tim.

[Bernie-the-bolt]

Timja said:

One other question which i would imagine may be relevant (especailly after the 2 replies so far being quite different) is what size company do you own/work for?

Cheers,

Tim.

I own a small co, 12 years established, T/O in excess of £1m and 9 employees currently.

[Tuscan Tart]

I am only an employee, my last company (Turnover 3/4m)paid 3 days sick in a year, but people just added them to their holiday allowance.

Where I am now (3.5m), do pay sick if it's the odd day, but also reward you if you haven't had a sick day in a month, they give you half a day off.

My daughter was the biggest culprit of phoning in sick because she knew she would be paid for it, her boss (A solicitor) didn't know how to operate SSP. (I have enlightened him and guess what, her sickness rate has improved )

If I were the owner of a company I would only pay SSP, it stops people taking the mickey, IME if you think you are not going to get paid then you are more than likely not to take a day off.

[Timja]

I like the idea of rewarding for not taking sick days. Seems there is a fair difference between big and small companies!

Our company (small) pays at directors discretion 8 days full pay. Seems to focus peoples mind when they reach their maximum and stop getting paid! - For people who are genuinely Ill then that's fine, but others seem to get a slight sniff and call in sick.... having said that, maybe it's better if someones got a cold they stay at home and don't come in and infect everyone else!

I've never had a day off sick, and does get frustrating when people (who i suspect are not so ill they couldn't come in to work, slight cold etc...) get effectively an extra 8 days holiday.

Haing said that, i know the directors look on things fairly and if someone who had never taken sick days needed to take an extended sick leave longer than 8 days they would probably pay full pay for more than 8 days...

[bga]

Tuscan Tart said:

If I were the owner of a company I would only pay SSP, it stops people taking the mickey, IME if you think you are not going to get paid then you are more than likely not to take a day off.

All but one of our staff are chargable to clients. we pay them a basic & then a percentage of their daily charge out rate. Sickness is less than 1 day per person per year.

[Don]

We operate just like Bernie-the-bolt. We too are a small business.