Did anyone see this on the news earlier this week,what are your thoughts on this? What Company Sick Pay does your organisation offer?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48983750
Would love to hear your views!
Sarah
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Hi,
This would be a great development for employees, but may affect the budgets of SME's. If organisations have many employees that work part time on only a few hours, the company will bear the burden of paying SSP as this is one of the few statutory payments they can't reclaim any of from the government.
Where I work, we have hundreds of cleaners that work between 3 - 6 hours per week, so never meet the threshold for SSP. They are instead sent a SSP1 form if they are still absent on day four (after the waiting days). I work for an international company, so they would be able to absorb the cost. However, I would imagine that they will look at these type of roles and may contract that work out rather than be liable for the additional costs. Let's see what happens.
Regards,
Babs