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Our hourly paid employees get paid full sick if it is to do with covid. If not they get nothing.
Can an employer ask to see test results?
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Our hourly paid employees get paid full sick if it is to do with covid. If not they get nothing.
Ah zero hours contracts?
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It does not matter how many hours you have, you are not legally entitled to full sick pay.
"You can get £95.85 per week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if you’re too ill to work. It’s paid by your employer for up to 28 weeks."
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Obtaining covid results would come under legitimate interest of U.K. Data Protection laws so they’re within their right to request them - they could argue that without the results, the employee wouldn’t be able to fulfil their work contract
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No they only have SSP in their contracts. As they are key workers the company has taken it in good faith to pay them in full if they have symptoms. Which in theory is a good thing because then you don't have people who need the money forcing themselves to work but on the flip side you have chancers trying it on also.
Ah well, either way there won't be anything in their contract for you to enforce disclosure of a test result.
This sounds like a more plausible reason.
It's a text message, who's to say they didn't just delete it as soon as they received it and seen the result? I tend to delete texts like this only keeping personal ones.
Asking for it after they've allowed them back in the office is a bit late really, if they want to do this then they need to make sure people are keeping the evidence and therefore inform them before they go off ill and need a test.
Asking for it after they've allowed them back in the office is a bit late really, if they want to do this then they need to make sure people are keeping the evidence and therefore inform them before they go off ill and need a test.
And again, this.
If you supply an email address then you get an email as well.
Currently laying on my bed feeling a bit ill with Covid19 (positive test result came through yesterday).
This.
We've had a number of these cases where I work. Two that work for me as well, absolutely nothing wrong with them whatsoever but they can pretty much get away with it "because covid". I won't forget.
How do you know there's nothing wrong with them?
People can feel ill for other reasons than COVID and can self certify for 7 days. Not sure what the big issue is. All you would ever do in that circumstance is say you were ill with x and that’s the end of it.
That said hopefully with all this social distancing and extra cleaning public and work places are doing general seasonal sickness will be lower this year.
That said hopefully with all this social distancing and extra cleaning public and work places are doing general seasonal sickness will be lower this year.
The OP is saying it's being withheld on purpose and claiming privacy.
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It's literally a company's responsibility to look after their staff and your mate is just being an idiot.
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The difference is you can discipline on the totting up rule of continued absence. Covid sickness is like a free pass.
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Same where my farther in-law works. He said everyone is having time off and getting paid full pal. All you have to do is get a test. Easy money!