0 money given by an employer to someone who cannot work because of illness
1 money paid to a worker who is not at work because they are ill:
The usual rules applied : for a small monthly subscription, the member was entitled to sick pay and eventually a pension.
A second important issue was the cuts in sick pay to reduce non-wage labour costs.
In reality, however, people might receive sick pay, so that a proportion of the costs fall on the employer or government.
Conversely, if the time loss from paid labor was paid (eg, sick pay), this loss was considered a loss to the employer.
Towards the end of the period under discussion union leaders had become convinced that holidays, sick pay and service increments must be acknowledged as rights rather than non-mandatory 'extras'.
Individuals who are made redundant would not normally be eligible for statutory sick pay.
There ought to be no pressure put on her in that hospital to sign away her sick pay.
The best employers already run excellent statutory sick pay schemes.
