What's your paid sick leave policy?

[2020nymph]

One of my colleagues has long covid and has been signed off work. After the first three months their pay dropped to 50%. I was shocked by this, three months is nothing and 50% is a massive amount to suddenly lose. In comparison, Furlough was 80%.

DH's work is six months and I was wondering how that compares to other businesses?

That's pretty generous especially if it's private sector?

I am 6 & 6 (extremely generous). My DS is SSP (extremely crap)

Nothing. Go sick don't get money. Even those vocal about having covid because they couldn't afford to be off and would have received ssp instead

5 days a year. Otherwise it’s unpaid

6 months full pay, 6 months half pay. A lot of flexibility for fertility and cancer treatment

None.

DH is Full pay 13 weeks then Half pay 13 weeks.

5 days paid & after that SSP

6m full 6m part lots of flexibility for LTC

Private sector here - we get2 weeks full pay then SSP

6 months full pay, 6 months half pay but the company have an insurance policy which kicks in after 6 months and if they accept the claim then they pay 75% of salary and employers costs for 3 years.

I had 16 months off having cancer treatment and was paid all the way through.

5 months full pay, 5 months half pay. Very generous.

My last place was 8 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay then SSP. But for something bonkers like 70p a month you could change it to 75% pay for 5 years. I always figured 75% was pretty decent because you wouldn't be paying into a pension any more and with the reduction in tax/NI/student loans, it would mainly only end up about a 10-15% decrease in take home. Loads of people didn't know about it though. I made it my life's mission to tell everyone about it.

10 days but first 3 days unpaid

Pretty sure mine is six months and then half pay after. You can purchase income protection as a work benefit to top that up to 100% for as long as you need.

Public sector. 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay.

Ours has just gone up (!) to 5 days paid and 5 days half pay then SSP. My previous employer was 6 months full pay.

Ours is based on service. After 4 years it's 6 months full and 6 months half. Less than that it builds up from 2 months full 2 months half based on service.

I,m with my company over 20 years. I have 1 years full pay. Then I can come back for a month and the year resets, I genuinely hope to never have to use it.

5 days paid (per annum) then SSP

In reality it is looked at on a case by case basis, when DP was dying I had 6 weeks on half pay.

13 weeks full, then 13 weeks half pay in a 12 month period.

6 months full pay, then 6 months half pay.

None, officially. In our contract it’s only SSP, but in reality I’ve known colleagues to be off 3-6mos or more and they’ve been paid their normal salary. I think it’s so they can reduce down to SSP if they feel someone is taking the piss, but they’ll have to move with the times soon I think and formalise what they’ve been doing already.

6 and 6.

I recently had week off because my mum passed away and time off before to see her and for funeral etc. They paid me everything.

Then after 2 weeks back I had 3 weeks off for surgery full pay too.

That's public sector.

4 months full pay and 4 months half pay. It is less generous for new starters though.

We have a lot of TUPE'd staff so it's a bit of a minefield. Some from NHS so quite generous. Some from small charities so no pay for the first 2 days of sickness and then 1 week pay.

Not a penny! I work in the private sector and can confidently say that the majority of people I work with would be totally screwed if they were off sick for long !
A colleague delayed an urgent operation because she couldn’t afford the time off …she had to wait until she could save ! Had op now but was very unwell for months but dragged herself into work…bloody disgraceful!

I have no idea, because I don't take sick leave, but 50% sounds very generous. Maybe the OP should look up SSP rates to realise what the minimum would be.