Sick Pay - a staff member is going to be off for a while- Can we re-coup anything?

[RiaParkinson]

Our nurse has broken her finger ( badly) and has been told not to return to work for 4-6 weeks

She is our only nurse so we will need to get an agency nurse for £100 a day plus agency fees

We will also still be paying our nurse full pay

This has NOT come at a good time - is there anything we could claim ? who off?

Where to start?

We have been very lucky that we have not come across anything like this before....

I think you should think about putting future employers on SSP only contracts. Doesn't help you with your current situation, of course.

employees

My thoughts exactly Bubble

we have been very lucky with staff ( all bar one who moved away luckily ...then moved back and wanted her job back!)

but i think new employees will get a contract

We pay statutory SSP and Mat pay.

It sounds tight but we're in a business where employees have to be replaced by agency staff if they're sick and, with twenty staff, we can't afford to pay anything more.

yes its a bummer...

have learned

i dont think this employee has had a day off sick since we took over in 2002

she is good!

You'll have to pay her full pay as that is your 'custom and practice' and she sounds fab, anyway.

Putting new staff on less generous contracts might cause some bad feeling if your employees talk about their terms and conditions. But older staff will gradually leave and then everyone will be on the same contracts eventually.

thanks so much bubble for your learned help