How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker? – Paltry payments mean many must work to the bone just to survive.
How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker? – Paltry payments mean many must work to the bone just to survive.
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Statutory sick pay should be similar to how the furlough scheme worked. So 80% salary for as long as it takes.
Pay for it by taxing the wealthiest and closing tax loopholes
SSP wouldn’t even pay my rent, let alone everything else.
Forcing people to work even when they’re sick is not optimal for their health, potentially their colleagues health, their job performance, the company’s performance, or in the long term the Nation’s economy.
Afraid you’ll have to ditch the Tories did that. They’re trying to drag the UK to US-like policies, like not having mandatory sick leave and only having mandatory unpaid time off for serious family medical needs.
Sincerely, a Yank with firsthand experience.
Isn’t this why you buy insurance it cost like a few quid a month or negotiate better voluntary pay in your contract?
I’m an agency worker on a zero hours contract so I don’t even get that lol.
Had to take two days off sick last week. I can’t exactly afford to lose two days pay, but I’m also not about to pass out on my feet at work so what else can I do? Work literally sent me home because I was in no state.
I was recently ill and couldn’t take time off because if I did I’d be put on a disciplinary, sanctions at my work last a year and you don’t get a pay rise if you’re on a sanction.
So yeah, I won’t take time off when I’m ill.
How about a funding a health care system so people can see a GP or get medical attention so the can work – broken fucking country
We should all pay more National Insurance in return for sick pay equal to the minimum wage. This won’t happen and reforms won’t happen because people, mainly Conservative voting Daily Mail/Express Readers hate the idea of anyone getting something for nothing unless it’s themselves…
Was dealing with a health condition in 2020-2021 conveniently when COVID furlough was keeping most if not all of my work colleagues home on £800+ a month.
Was put on SSP from August 2020 to February 2021 where I was getting a whopping £460 a month maximum from my SSP. What a fucking steal. Then I had to apply for Universal Credit which landed me another whopping £420 a month maximum. I was over the moon.
Imagine my look of pure joy when I returned to work in October 2021 and got to listen to my colleagues talk fondly about how good it was to be on furlough and how much money they were getting on furlough.
Fuck you and the Uber you rode to work in.
Still think it should be down to the company and employee. My first ever job never got SSP got paid fine even after breaking my hand and needing time off, wasn’t a work place injury either.
My last employer it was left to the supervisor and manager to decide between full, SSP and no pay. Circumstances played a huge part in decision ie if they’re always off sick and the nature of it. Only time I got SSP was for covid.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but a job is worth the pay.
On average people are seeing the value of their labour decrease as they are made obsolete by automation, particularly secretarial/desk type work. Plus consider the hordes of non-tech (pointless/useuless) degree clad millenials and GenZers flooding unnecessary HR depts that don’t want to go into the manual/subsistence jobs (which are seeing shortages).
It’s all about squeezing the last bit of blood out of us metaphorically and workers us until we drop.
The ideology is thus we are not worth anything and we have not moved on as a society to a more decent civilised society run only for profit.
How about better quality of food they was just talking about it on the news
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I’m currently one of the people dealing with a long term health condition (surgical wound not healing well) and have had 4 months on SSP and have had to ultimately quit my previous job, a quite physical job, to take a WFH job. I require opiates (and laxatives to counter the constipation) just to sit in a chair for 8 hours. I’ve been lucky and had savings and help from my parents to pay my bills/mortgage, otherwise I would be fucked on 95 quid a week. The fact I have to take a highly addictive substance to do the bare minimum to survive and pay bills is quite a damming indication on the support systems that exist in this country.
“No way! You expect a fair wage AND fair pay for sickness and other valid reasons for being off work?! We only made quadruple profits this year we can’t do it!” – Fat cat CEOs, probably
It’s easy to say increase sick pay and it should be 80% of your wage after a valid sick note has been applied for say 2 weeks but any longer and people would just milk it for all it’s worth, long term “sick” people would abuse the system too much.
My company (a private medical device company) only gives 3 days paid sick leave every year after you’ve been employed for over a year.
You can take 5 days paid sick leave but the following year you won’t get any paid sick leave. Most employees can’t afford to be sick 🙂
It’s fine how it is, it would just encourage people to be “sick” for months and take the piss. SSP should be cut £10 per week.
Many companies used to have there own sick pay in place, NHS still have one but new starters are now on a reduced amount of months they are entitled to,
My company give us 6 weeks but they have just changed it for new starters to 2 weeks.
The problem is too many take the piss and stay off work longer when they are sick or just stay off when not sick.
It is like many perks you always get people who abuse the system and then the system changes and we all loose out.
I have recently had a mayor illness and took a year out of work so got 6 week pay the 28 SSP then on to UC, not nice when you have worked 40 years and only had odd days off work.
There should be a system based on what you put in and what you take out, take more than you put in then you get less pay.