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You decide whether or not to accept them. If you have any doubts you can still ask for a doctor’s fit note.
Your employee must continue to notify you of ongoing sickness. You can withhold payment if there are any days for which you have not been notified, but not for late medical evidence.
CIPP training course The CIPP offer a one-day online course which aims to equip delegates with the knowledge and skills required to accurately calculate SSP and the criteria needed to qualify for it. A great course for any busy payroll professionals who need to refresh their knowledge and understanding or for those new to payroll who need to learn about SSP within a short timeframe.
The course runs every month, with the next one taking place on Wednesday 5 June.
Further information HMRC has an interactive online guide to Statutory Sick Pay which is broken down into sections to make it easy to use.
The 'National Insurance contributions and statutory payments' toolkit, designed primarily for agents and advisers, is also useful.
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Consultation on Statutory Sick Pay reform imminent 3 June 2019
In a speech on the future of the labour market, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions said that government will at last be shortly consulting on reforming Statutory Sick Pay.
At the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, talking about the future of the Labour Market, Amber Rudd said:
“We will shortly consult on reforming Statutory Sick Pay, in order to better support employers to retain staff who experience health problems. The current system is failing to support those who fall ill in work, one of several factors causing older people to choose retirement when they still have a huge amount to offer. One in 4 men, and 1 in 3 women, have not worked for at least 5 years before they reach State Pension age.” Background The government pledged there would be a consultation in their November 2017 response to the green paper ‘Improving Lives - The Future of Work, Health and Disability’. Government said that 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.
Flexible SSP – what did you say? In advance of the consultation that we were led to believe would be published later in 2018, the CIPP policy team ran a survey during April 2018 to try and gather some early thoughts and opinions. Our findings from members and the wider
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