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- Date:
- 19 March 2020
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
Consultant editor Darren Newman discusses the changes to the statutory sick pay system brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, and suggests the current crisis may well result in a full review of the system.
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- Date:
- 19 March 2020
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
We set out some possible scenarios related to absence and attendance that HR professionals may face during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, and explain how they could tackle them. Additional scenarios (added on 19 March) now cover an employee being unable to work because their child's school has closed or an elderly relative has fallen ill, and an employee due to return to work has been stranded abroad.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Employees who are self-isolating due to coronavirus (COVID-19) are deemed incapable of work for the purposes of SSP.
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- Date:
- 11 March 2020
- Type:
- News
The chancellor of the exchequer has announced £7 billion of extraordinary measures to help support businesses and individuals who will be affected by the covid-19 coronavirus outbreak in his first Budget.
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- Date:
- 6 March 2020
- Type:
- News
The government is drawing up plans to offer financial support to people who are self-isolating but who do not qualify for statutory sick pay (SSP) - including self-employed workers and people who earn below the £118-a-week threshold.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect that the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2020 has been published.
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- Date:
- 9 January 2020
- Type:
- News
The Government has published the proposed statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay from April 2020.
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- Date:
- 21 November 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In TSN v Hyvinvointialan Liitto Ry; AKT v Satamaoperaattorit Ry, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that, in the absence of domestic legislation or collective agreements to the contrary, workers on sick leave are not entitled to carry over any paid annual leave over and above the EU minimum of four weeks.
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- Type:
- Policies and documents
Updated to include information on TSN v Hyvinvointialan Liitto Ry; AKT v Satamaoperaattorit Ry, in which the European Court of Justice confirmed that, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, holiday carry-over for workers on sick leave is limited to four weeks.
