Sick day pro-rata

Sick days pro-rata

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How do I work out an employe's sick days entitlement on a 3 day week.  All full time employees (5 days per week)  are entitled to 3 days sick per year.  So someone working 3 days per week needs to be pro-rataed.  I have come up with 1.8 days sick day allowance. (if 3/5=.6 per day x 3 = 1.8)  can someone agree or explain how to arrive at a correct time

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By johngroganjga
25th Aug 2016 14:42

You are quite right that 3/5 of 3 is 1.8.

But I am baffled by the the concept of being "entitled" to sick days. What does "entitled" mean in this context?

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By Igor Nankun
25th Aug 2016 14:46

It's a British practice John, whereby employees get to supplement their annual leave entitlement with "sickies".

The unions would pull the whole country out on strike if anybody tried to do away with "sickies".

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By johngroganjga
25th Aug 2016 14:56

So it's not "entitlement" to be sick, it's entitlement to take paid leave other than as holiday without being sick?

What happens when an employee actually falls sick I wonder.

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By airgead
25th Aug 2016 15:08

OK so not 'entitled' but paid up to 3 days sick (any other days sick in the year are unpaid)
So pro-rata ???

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By airgead
25th Aug 2016 15:08

OK so not 'entitled' but paid up to 3 days sick (any other days sick in the year are unpaid)
So pro-rata ???

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By tom123
25th Aug 2016 16:39

Presumably by 'unpaid' you mean subject to SSP only?

Bear in mind that the SSP clock starts running at the same time as your 'occupational' sick days, rather than after it - so, for a full time employee off for one week, they would get 3 days occupational sick pay followed by two days at the SSP rate.

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By pf3005
25th Aug 2016 15:59

Sick days are sick days not pro rata. Qualifying days are counted as the days an employee normally works.
If they qualify for sickness it is the weekly sick pay amount that is pro rata 3/5th's.
How lucky to have an annual entitlement!

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By bendybod
30th Aug 2016 15:16

I have worked in an environment previously where the employer contracted a certain maximum paid sick leave policy - it was slightly strange in that we were entitled to up to 20 days in no more than 4 separate episodes of sickness. Obviously this meant that if you were off sick for one day then you might as well be off for five because otherwise you were going to lose four days' entitlement!
If you are determining entitlement to a similarly worded policy and the entitlement is three days for full time workers I would say that you would have to round the part time worker's up to two days as it is rarely acceptable to round entitlements down.
Obviously SSP rules always apply and so if the three days is meant to cover the waiting days for SSP purposes then you would be unfairly disadvantaging the part time employee, since he or she still gets the same amount of SSP over a week, just split between three days, not five. This means that if he or she only gets two days entitlement, they would have one day with no pay as the SSP would only kick in during the second week of them being off.

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