Sickness absence and sick pay

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• Type:

  FAQs

  What can an employer do when an employee invited to an attendance review meeting goes off sick?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer issue a warning to an employee for poor attendance, even where there are genuine reasons for their absences?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What is the "lost-time rate" of measuring absence?

• Type:

  FAQs

  When should an employer instigate a formal review of a particular employee's level of attendance?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employer wishes to reward employees for low sickness absence, what factors must it take into account?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Will an employee who takes time off for fertility treatment be entitled to statutory or contractual sick pay?

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employee goes abroad for treatment will they still be entitled to receive statutory sick pay?

• Date:

  21 July 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Constructive dismissal: No written contract but employee entitled to full sick pay

  In Secession Ltd t/a Freud v Bellingham EAT/0069/05, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that the tribunal was entitled to imply a term to the effect that an employee with no written contract had the right to be paid in full during periods of sickness absence.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Should the employer maintain an employee's pay during pregnancy-related sickness absence if they are not entitled to contractual sick pay?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer dismiss an employee on long-term sickness absence before they have exhausted their entitlement to contractual sick pay?