Being told to stay off work but no sick pay?

[Aljb02]

I work in a neuropsychiatric rehab hospital and we’ve had staff test positive for covid. Obviously the policy states we can’t be at work with covid - far enough as it’s a health care setting. So we are made to stay off sick by the company but we don’t get sick pay. Some staff who’ve tested positive said they wouldn’t class themselves sick enough to be off but obviously have to be. I’ve got all the symptoms but negative LFT so far and I’m also pregnant. I can’t afford to be off if I do turn positive but it would be wrong for me to stop testing.

We are treated the same, expected to test and stay off but now not paid....its a pain but its how it is

Yes it'd be very wrong to put vulnerable patients at risk.

Honestly I think I might stop testing. You don't test for other respiratory viruses, I gather? There's no logical reason to treat them differently.

If they are mandating you to stay off work they need to create a pay arrangement for that.

Would you get sick pay if it was just a cold or a sickness bug?

I’ve stopped testing. If I was ill enough not to be at work I’d just say I’m ill

The employer is the one doing this by not paying people who are willing and able to work.

Same here. I am SE. No work = no pay. No pay = how do we pay the bills?

In my NHS trust, if you test positive you either have to be off sick (obviously we get sick pay but they are strict around sickness monitoring so you don't want to be marked as sick if you're not if that makes sense) OR you have to work from home on some capacity - some people can flip to this easily but for others it means being provided with a laptop to do mandatory training, CPD or managers have to find you something to do classed as work etc.