Statutory Sick Pay Archives - Ward Williams HR Advisers

Increase in statutory family-related pay and sick pay

08Mar

HR and Employment Law Advice and Support

Increase in statutory family-related pay and sick pay

The government has published the proposed statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay, parental bereavement pay and sick pay from April 2022. The rate for…

01Mar

by Hannah Peyton

Payroll Services

Closure of SSP Rebate Scheme

HMRC has announced that the Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme will close on 17 March 2022. Employers will no longer be able to claim back Statutory Sick Pay for their employees’ coronavirus-related…

06Jan

by Sarena Harwood

Payroll Services

Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme reintroduced for SME’s

Employers with fewer than 250 employees will be able to claim up to two weeks’ Statutory Sick Pay per employee for COVID-related sickness absences occurring from 21 December 2021. The…

20Dec

by Sarena Harwood

HR and Employment documentation production, HR and Employment Law Advice and Support, Payroll Services

Temporary change to Fit Notes

For Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), where employees go off sick on or after 10 December 2021, employers can only ask employees for proof of sickness (such as a fit note)…

18Mar

by Hannah Peyton

Coronavirus, Payroll Services

The Chancellor confirmed the amendment previously announced by the Prime Minister on 4 March 2020 (www.gov.uk/government/news/sick-pay-from-day-one-for-those-affected-by-coronavirus), that the requirement for three waiting days is to be suspended allowing SSP to…