Sickness absence and sick pay

New and updated

• Budget 2020: Coronavirus sick pay to be covered for SMEs

  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.

• Podcast: Dealing with the impact of coronavirus in the workplace

  Date:

  6 March 2020

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Darren Newman discusses how employers can deal with the special circumstances created by the coronavirus.

• Covid-19: Support planned for self-isolators who don't qualify for sick pay

  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.

• Should a policy triggering disciplinary action after a certain amount of absence be suspended in relation to employees with coronavirus symptoms during the outbreak?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Take part in our annual absence rates and costs survey

  Date:

  20 February 2020

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  Managing employee absence starts with good data. Take part in XpertHR's survey on absence rates to receive the latest data on how your organisation compares.

• Statutory sick pay rises

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Updated to reflect that the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2020 has been published.

• April 2020 statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay rates published

  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.

• Long-term sick leave: Holiday carry-over limited to four weeks, confirms ECJ

  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.

• Holiday entitlement on long-term sickness absence policy

  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.

• Podcast: Labour turnover and sickness absence rates

  Date:

  15 October 2019

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  We discuss trends in labour turnover and sickness absence rates based on data gathered by XpertHR.