Do they see higher rates of sickness with a system like that?
of course they will. It's like the NHS 6 months full/6 months half pay and sickness is through the roof. Utterly ridiculous. People permenantly taking the mickey and work the system.
Do they see higher rates of sickness with a system like that?
As the Director of an SME Tech business (we employee circa 100 staff) sickness is a real bone of contention..
You of-course want to support employees when they have a genuine illness or accident, etc.. however when we ran a full-pay sick policy some people just see this as an excuse for some extra holiday; especially where you can self-cert your illness. Given we are already generous in terms of package, benefits and flexibility of working location and hours it really does rub up the wrong way when people abuse sickness.
As such we got rid of the occupation sick scheme and now only run a statutory sick scheme.. that said in the odd case where someone has a genuine problem we have continued to also pay regular salary; we just are no longer contractually obligated to.
In terms of sick rate we never had a massively high issue it was more particular individuals than a problem across the business.. but those individuals miraculously no longer take the odd Monday or Friday "sick" now..
Lol.
I actually lolled.
"Sorry guys im off ill, pay me my full wage anyway while im not doing my job"
As the Director of an SME Tech business (we employee circa 100 staff) sickness is a real bone of contention..
You of-course want to support employees when they have a genuine illness or accident, etc.. however when we ran a full-pay sick policy some people just see this as an excuse for some extra holiday; especially where you can self-cert your illness. Given we are already generous in terms of package, benefits and flexibility of working location and hours it really does rub up the wrong way when people abuse sickness.
As such we got rid of the occupation sick scheme and now only run a statutory sick scheme.. that said in the odd case where someone has a genuine problem we have continued to also pay regular salary; we just are no longer contractually obligated to.
In terms of sick rate we never had a massively high issue it was more particular individuals than a problem across the business.. but those individuals miraculously no longer take the odd Monday or Friday "sick" now..
Lol.
I actually lolled.
"Sorry guys im off ill, pay me my full wage anyway while im not doing my job"
As the Director of an SME Tech business (we employee circa 100 staff) sickness is a real bone of contention..
You of-course want to support employees when they have a genuine illness or accident, etc.. however when we ran a full-pay sick policy some people just see this as an excuse for some extra holiday; especially where you can self-cert your illness. Given we are already generous in terms of package, benefits and flexibility of working location and hours it really does rub up the wrong way when people abuse sickness.
As such we got rid of the occupation sick scheme and now only run a statutory sick scheme.. that said in the odd case where someone has a genuine problem we have continued to also pay regular salary; we just are no longer contractually obligated to.
In terms of sick rate we never had a massively high issue it was more particular individuals than a problem across the business.. but those individuals miraculously no longer take the odd Monday or Friday "sick" now..
LOL all you like. I've worked for 5 different companies and all of them have had sick pay policies in place to cover their staff.Lol.
I actually lolled.
"Sorry guys im off ill, pay me my full wage anyway while im not doing my job"
That's normal. It's part of the transaction for your loyalty to the company, and their loyalty to you.
Wish I would do that
Alas being self employed means i have to work to pay myself
I very very rarely took a sick day in 13 years until I had children. Last year my daughter gave me viral conjunctivitis and I was in bed for 5 days with a fever that wouldn't go away. I've never experienced eyeball pain in my life until then!!Am I in the tiny minority ? I'm 48 this year, been working full time since leaving school and never had a day off sick.
Then you are on the statutory sick leave from the government. It's a bit off-putting if you're the main earner in a household and may be struck down with an illness or accident which requires time off work, and knowing your company isn't going to support you.
Yep you're right. I am in the process of potentially accepting a job offer from a very small company ~70 people. I've always worked for large multi nationals but this new position is something I am really interested in, as well as paying 20% more than what I'm on at the moment. The downsides are there are literally no benefits other than discount from the products.well you need to factor that into any job offer you receive, if you have a chronic illness then things like sick pay and medical insurance (especially medical insurance that allows for pre-existing conditions) might well have greater value for you when deciding whether to chose a particular job... so you consider those as well as salary... if you don't get sick pay then perhaps you need to pay separately for some insurance to cover you in the event that you're unable to work for a period of time, if you're just talking about not being paid for the odd few days per year that the average employee ends up taking off then just factor that lost income in when comparing salaries
Am I in the tiny minority ? I'm 48 this year, been working full time since leaving school and never had a day off sick.
Based on your location, I'm guessing that's because you don't interact with other people at all? Because otherwise you're extremely lucky and should play the lottery, or you have the immune system of superman (or are you a robot? )