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?

@ Augend23
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.

Could you please explain further? Do you mean employees can pay 70p a month? If so, who do they pay it to for example? Or is it the employer who can take out insurance at 70p a month, per employee? Thank you