Sickness absence and sick pay

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• Type:

  FAQs

  What should an employer do if it suspects that an employee's reported sickness absence is not genuine and is due instead to them taking time off work to watch a football match?

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing employee on sick leave of outcome of disciplinary meeting that has gone ahead in their absence

  A model letter informing a sick employee of the outcome of a disciplinary meeting that has gone ahead in their absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing sick employee that disciplinary meeting is going ahead in their absence

  A model letter informing a sick employee that a disciplinary meeting is going ahead in their absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to sick employee postponing disciplinary meeting

  A model letter to a sick employee postponing a disciplinary meeting.

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employee has been signed off work for a particular period, can the employer allow them to return early?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What should an employer do if it receives a fit note saying that an employee "may be fit for work taking account of the following advice"?

• Date:

  23 November 2009

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Annual leave: National law must not prevent employee from taking leave at later time if sick during allotted leave period

  In Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA [2009] IRLR 959 ECJ, the ECJ held that art.7(1) of the Working Time Directive must be interpreted as precluding national provisions or collective agreements that deny a worker who is on sick leave during a period of scheduled annual leave the right to take the annual leave at a later time, even if this is outside the holiday year in which the annual leave was accrued.

• Date:

  26 August 2009

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Holiday pay: Unpaid holiday pay can be claimed as unlawful deductions from wages

  In HM Revenue and Customs v Stringer and others sub nom Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth and others [2009] IRLR 677 HL, the House of Lords held that a claim for unpaid holiday due under the Working Time Regulations 1998 can be brought as an unlawful deductions from wages claim under ss.13 and 23 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should an employer deal with an employee who calls in sick on a bank holiday?

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter offering condolences to employee on their hospitalisation

  A model letter offering condolences to an employee on their hospitalisation.