Who can get Statutory Sick Pay?
SSP can be paid to employees who fulfil the following criteria; • He or she works part-time or full time for you. • Your employee is absent due to illness for at least 4 calendar days in a row. This is known as a Period of Incapacity for Work (PIW). • Your employee’s average weekly earnings must be at least at the Lower Earnings Limit (the current rate from April 2009 is £95) in the relevant period before he or she was unable to work. Your employee does not need to have made any National Insurance Contributions to be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay. You are not required but are entitled to ask for reasonable evidence of your employee’s inability to work. After the first 7 days of sickness, you may ask your employee to produce a doctor’s certificate.
