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Flexible SSP – what did you say? 8 May 2018
Thank you to all those who took the time to respond to our survey on the government’s plans to introduce a more flexible system of statutory sick pay.
The government pledged there would be a consultation in their response to the 2016 green paper ‘Improving Lives - The Future of Work, Health and Disability’ .
Government said they “ want to see a reformed SSP system which supports more flexible working … to help support phased returns to work including spacing out working days during a return to work, managing a long-term health condition, or recovering from illness.” Government also pledged to: • Improve and better publicise existing guidance on SSP eligibility to ensure that employers and employees each understand their rights and responsibilities; and • Consider Matthew Taylor’s recommendations about SSP eligibility and the way entitlement is accrued and about sickness absence management. We published a survey at the end of March which ran for a month, to try and gather some early thoughts and opinions together with case studies in advance of the consultation promised later in the year. To follow is a summary of our findings through the responses from our members and the wider payroll profession. • There was a range in numbers on the payroll from respondents but the majority were between 250 and 9,999. • • 89% offer both SSP and OSP schemes with differing options depending on their terms and conditions. • • 87% offer an initial return to work on altered hours (phased return) after a period of sickness. 77% of which said that each case is looked at on an individual basis, and that they have no set time scale for employees to be off before the phased return is offered. • • With regards to how employers pay their staff on a return to work after a period of sickness on altered hours, 49% only pay for the hours worked, whereas it was almost evenly split where some employers pay full pay regardless of hours worked and the others pay for hours worked, topped up with OSP or SSP. • We asked what respondents thought they would need to do, or to adapt their payroll systems and processes to accommodate employees returning to work on altered hours and paid a mixture of OSP & SSP. Responses were that software would need to be adapted/updated, if the change was to legislation then staff would need to be educated and more manual intervention would be required. Some respondents did say that they felt little or no change would be required.
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