If you're in a professional role, what are your sick pay allowances?

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I'm considering moving from a big organisation with great terms and conditions to a smaller one with less favourable ones.

If your salary is the equivalent of 30-40k for fulltime work, what sick pay and other allowances do you get?

• 6 months full pay sick leave
• 1 week a year paid parental leave (caring for sick child, if needed)
• 27 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays on top

For the first few years it's related to length of service so year two is two months at full pay and two months at half pay. I think it maxes out at 6 months full and then some at half. We're public sector. Interestingly covid illness doesn't count towards this.

OP - could you buy some insurance to make up for the loss of sick pay and still move to the new job?

5 days paid sick in a rolling 12 months. 27 days a/l plus bank hols. Private medical cover.

Main benefit to me is a lot of flexibility!

Six months full pay, then six months half pay. I think this is sometimes more generous for very, very serious illness like cancers or MND.

However. Things like multiple short term absence are tightly managed.

However, I pay £10 a month for my own sickness cover - if I'm off for more than 30 days i get 80% of my salary. This is ok for me as, as rubbish as no salary would be for 3 weeks or so, we'd be ok.

Large private employer.

All staff get 35 days of annual leave, 26 weeks full sick pay then drops to half pay for 26 weeks BUT we do extend the full pay on certain circumstances (mainly where the illness is terminal and we know that the employee isn’t likely to live to have Permanent Health Insurance pay out). Small consolation to the family, but I like to think it takes a worry off of them.

Also have death in service benefit (4 times salary).

I’d never consider working for a company with poor illness benefits. In my experience, a lot of people are exceptionally sick at least once in their working lives.

I don't know. I've never needed to find out.

For those asking where those of us with large benefits packages work, e.g up to a year sick pay etc - in my case it’s a large public sector employer. It’s worth noting though that doing the same role in the private sector would pay around 30% more in terms of salary, but wouldn’t be half as secure / have half as generous a benefits package (which overall costs the company less than payroll). The theory is that staff are likely to stay with the company even with lower salaries because the security of job, benefits and flexibility more than make up for the monetary side. In my line of work this holds up - private sector employees doing similar roles switch companies every 2-3 years, not through choice but through being on short term contracts / redundancy and having to go where the work is!

Six months full pay, six months half pay, but it was something of a shock, on DH Cancer diagnosis, to find that his equally professional, higher paid job offers only 4 months' sick pay.

However, these things re usually discretionary and he's been led to believe that if he needs longer, they'll pay it.

3 months full pay, 3 months half for the first couple of years rising to 6 months of each after a couple of years.

I work for my local council and get 6 months full pay, 3 months half pay. 30 days leave a year with 2 extra days of no sick leave is taken.

Thank all for your messages. I am looking into income protection insurance but starting from scratch with it as it's all new to me. I've always had such good terms with work that it's hard to know if it's worth the risk

I don’t think it’s worth the risk at the moment OP. If you have a job that you don’t hate with good benefits, I would stick at it for the moment. We really are in a pickle and a secure job could make all the difference in the next few years post brexit and post (hopefully!!) Covid. Different story if you don’t need the money or really hate your current job but if you just fancy a change, I would hold off for now.

I work for a firm with about 50 employees.

Nothing. If you are off sick, nothing beyond SSP. Basic holiday allowance too.

I don’t work in a profession

I get 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay. This is only applicable if your service is more than 5 years, before that it’s much less

MyMushroomsInATimeSlip

Could you have a sickness/injury pot you save into & don’t touch- build it up to cover 3 months bills

Six months full pay then six months half pay plus 31 holiday days plus bank holidays. Public sector.

I moved from a big corporate to a smaller company (around 250 staff)

Statutory sick pay
Statutory maternity pay
Minimum employer pension contributions
Cash benefit type medical eg you get a few quid back if you use a medical service.
They say that childcare voucher and ride to work schemes are a benefit but I think most companies offer these as it's nil cost!

But it's interesting work, decent pay and super flexible in terms of days and hours.

6 months full pay, 6 month half pay, access to services through occupational health...

13 weeks "hol" a year (except it's not hol as technically I don't get paid for holidays).

I'm a teacher.

@Lurkingforawhile

For the first few years it's related to length of service so year two is two months at full pay and two months at half pay. I think it maxes out at 6 months full and then some at half. We're public sector. Interestingly covid illness doesn't count towards this.

@Lurkingforawhile I am the same - COVID related sickness is not counted as sickness, whether it’s because of having to self isolate or actually having it, it’s being treated as paid emergency leave.

NHS. 6 months full/6 months h Alf.

Forget how much AL, it's in my diary at work, but standard for band 6 with long service, pro rata as I work 4 days pw rather than 5.

I work for a bank - 6 months full pay and then 6 months half. After a year there is a group income protection policy which kicks in, I think.

Do these employers that pay for 6 months manage people out for taking any sickness absence though? 3 occasions and a disciplinary

Generally not. If you're not the one sick, you can find yourself covering for sick colleagues a lot. Very difficult when you are in a team with someone who knows exactly how far they can push their entitlements (not generally cancer or other serious illnesses, but quite common for things like stress, ME and bad backs).

People can go on for years being off work more than they are at work. Not great when their FB feed is full of them having 'mental health days at the park' when you're stuck in the office covering for them.

6 employees, SSP only