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Jul. 19th, 2019 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreySo. I'm off work sick, obviously. And at the bottom of one side of my sick note, it said something about getting a benefits form if my company doesn't pay Statutory Sick Pay. I was always told my company did not pay sick pay, and I thought those were just the rules and didn't think much of it. But I asked my employer to send this form, and they have, and basically it's a form to ask my employer why they legally won't give me sick pay, because I am legally entitled to some form of it, even a basic rate. Looking through all the reasons they might not give it to me, I don't think any single one applies - and I have googled online and all the information says much the same thing, that I am legally entitled to some basic sick pay if I'm off for more than four days, and that all the rules for the type of job that qualify you for sick pay are things that I fulfill. So. Now I think that maybe my company are doing something slightly illegal by not offering me sick pay, or something slightly shady by not offering it for the odd couple of days off, and just not mentioning sick pay to anyone who's off for longer than that.
I just called the Citizen's Advice Bureau, and they said much the same thing and that they couldn't see any reason I wouldn't be entitled to sick pay, and they gave some other numbers to call if I wanted to make absolutely sure. But. It seems like, despite the hope I had when the sick note mentioned something about a benefits form, I'm just not going to get paid for the time I'm having off, despite being legally entitled to it - or I'm going to have to contact my company to have either an awkward conversation, an argument, or a legal battle to try to get sick pay that I'm entitled to. I suspect I don't qualify for it anymore now because you have to write to your employer within 7 days about your illness to qualify - and I haven't, because no-one suggested it would benefit me to do so. But still. It seems a little fucked up, and will affect any sick pay/time off I might have in the future.
I don't need this right now.
I just called the Citizen's Advice Bureau, and they said much the same thing and that they couldn't see any reason I wouldn't be entitled to sick pay, and they gave some other numbers to call if I wanted to make absolutely sure. But. It seems like, despite the hope I had when the sick note mentioned something about a benefits form, I'm just not going to get paid for the time I'm having off, despite being legally entitled to it - or I'm going to have to contact my company to have either an awkward conversation, an argument, or a legal battle to try to get sick pay that I'm entitled to. I suspect I don't qualify for it anymore now because you have to write to your employer within 7 days about your illness to qualify - and I haven't, because no-one suggested it would benefit me to do so. But still. It seems a little fucked up, and will affect any sick pay/time off I might have in the future.
I don't need this right now.
