Level 10 – PBS4 Handbook

Sick Pay

In accordance with the eligibility requirements of the Inland Revenue, you may be entitled to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) when you are absent from work due to sickness. The main features of the scheme are:

The first three days of incapacity are unpaid (called 'waiting days').
SSP is paid for up to 28 weeks.
Once SSP is exhausted, an employee normally transfers onto benefits paid directly by the Department for Work and Pensions.
If two periods of sickness are separated by less than eight weeks (56 days) then they are linked, and the employee need not serve the waiting days again.

Information on statutory sick pay can be obtained from the Inland Revenue as well as our sickness policy.

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