Name: What is Statutory Sick Pay?
Uploaded: 2020-03-04T20:44:13.000Z
Duration: 2 min 24 s
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- Today's question is all about Statutory Sick Pay.

We've had a number of conversations with clients

on the phone recently who haven't really understood

I'm just going to take a moment to explain it.

Statutory Sick Pay is money that is paid by the company

So, depending on the size of your payroll, very often

you can claim back your Statutory Sick Pay, not always.

And, the rules are changing, so always check

with HMRC, but it is an amount of money that an employee

is entitled to if they are absent from work

and where either there is no company sick pay

Now, the key to Statutory Sick Pay is that you have

to have it in your Contract of Employment and what it means

is that you don't pay anything to the employee

for the first three days of their absence

before their Statutory Sick Pay kicks in.

Now, that first three days a lot of business owners

don't realise that they don't have to pay their employee.

Now that's quite a useful way of getting people

back to work on a regular basis, who actually

aren't really sick, they just fancy a day off work.

If you continue to pay them for that day off work

on a Friday, or that day off work on a Monday,

Contracts of Employment, then actually make sure

Stop pay as soon as somebody is off for day one

because they'll only not have their pay once

before they realise that they're being penalised

If they're genuinely sick and they're off

for a week or two weeks, then their Statutory Sick Pay

will come in, but you can't discriminate.

So, if your policy is Statutory Sick Pay, even if

it's Statutory Sick Pay within the first year

that they were off here, there and everywhere