Coronavirus and sick pay.

norris9 · Post by **norris9** » 06 Mar 2020, 22:55

I am not sure how it all works, but I don't get why for 1 whole year you don't get sick pay. Maybe it's common, but I've never had this with any other job I have done.

I would just be entitled to statutory sick pay if I went off sick with coronavirus, which is like £98 a week. If I felt like I just had a cold I probably wouldn't bother going to a doctors to get them to check for coronavirus - I'd just work as I need to get my full pay.

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 07 Mar 2020, 01:51

Everything is contractual thing is as time goes by they get watered down by people who do not fight for the rights that were earned by people who sacrificed themselves and their pay for others only for others to squander it and spaf it up a wall.

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 07 Mar 2020, 02:42

Universal Credit don't bother claiming it you will be dead before you get it. But Boris don't care as he has Donald Trumps hair and in the era of despair he don't care!

mentaltheshots · Post by **mentaltheshots** » 07 Mar 2020, 05:11

I was sick over Christmas period (testicular cancer), doctor, consultant, operation all within two weeks ( good old NHS). When I returned to work after 4 weeks, I had my return to work interview. I asked the manager if I would get a stage warning for this sickness and in future as I have to have chemo, he said no "I will not issue stage warnings for cancer".

LouBarlow · Post by **LouBarlow** » 07 Mar 2020, 05:18

clashcityrocker wrote:
LouBarlow wrote:
daveyeff wrote:and will they be on a stage if they catch it and are off for 14 days or more.
Of course they will. You get staged even if you have cancer.
No you don't.
Cancer from the point of diagnosis is treated as a disability under the Equality Act and exempt from the attendance procedure.
You could only get staged if your rep was woefully incompetent or the absence wasn't linked to the cancer.

Some years back advice was issued that absences due to swine flu shouldn't to be counted under the attendance procedure.

The key point of this is 'from the point of diagnosis'. Very rare for cancer to be diagnosed the first time someone is off sick. If they are absent because of the symptoms before hand, then it still counts under the attendance procedure.

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 09 Mar 2020, 08:32

clashcityrocker wrote:
Some years back advice was issued that absences due to swine flu shouldn't to be counted under the attendance procedure.

I unfortunately had Swine Flu, ended up with an infection on one of my lungs. Once I had recovered and returned to work I was issued with a Stage. So I think it depends on how much of an arsehole the manager is.

Woody Guthrie · Post by **Woody Guthrie** » 09 Mar 2020, 17:52

The UK is 'very close' to forcing seven-day self-isolation upon anyone with 'even minor respiratory tract infections or a fever'

England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty says the UK will reach that stage 'probably within the next 10-14 days'

This is a significant development.

Post by **Murdoch** » 09 Mar 2020, 21:21

Woody Guthrie wrote:
The UK is 'very close' to forcing seven-day self-isolation upon anyone with 'even minor respiratory tract infections or a fever'

England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty says the UK will reach that stage 'probably within the next 10-14 days'
This is a significant development.

The stats emerging from italy, are quite stark. A fatality rate of around 5%. And a hospitilasation rate of around 50%.

Seasonal flu, this is not. We're a couple of weeks behind Italy, in terms of the epidemic in the UK.

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 09 Mar 2020, 22:09

Murdoch wrote:
The stats emerging from italy, are quite stark. A fatality rate of around 5%. And a hospitilasation rate of around 50%.

Seasonal flu, this is not. We're a couple of weeks behind Italy, in terms of the epidemic in the UK.

Just on the news that Italy is going to be on shutdown. All schools etc closed and their health service is on the verge of a meltdown.

ripio · Post by **ripio** » 09 Mar 2020, 23:20

Murdoch wrote:
The stats emerging from italy, are quite stark. A fatality rate of around 5%. And a hospitilasation rate of around 50%.

Source?
That hospitalisation rate seems wildly too high.

Post by **Murdoch** » 09 Mar 2020, 23:46

ripio wrote:
Murdoch wrote:
The stats emerging from italy, are quite stark. A fatality rate of around 5%. And a hospitilasation rate of around 50%.
Source?
That hospitalisation rate seems wildly too high.

Italian Government: http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovoc ... menu=vuoto" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Google Translate:

Press conference at 6 pm on March 9th

9172 total cases, currently positive people are 7985, 463 dead and 724 recovered.

Among the 7985 positives:

2936 are in home isolation
4316 hospitalized with symptoms
733 in intensive care

DB1100 · Post by **DB1100** » 10 Mar 2020, 18:13

I phoned in sick this morning with flu like symptoms,2hrs later I got a message from one of my friends at work that one of the managers was overheard telling someone that they hope I die,what a lovely company we work for

daveyeff · Post by **daveyeff** » 10 Mar 2020, 18:53

if that's true that's absolutely f****** shocking. they should be sacked for that. hope you are ok. keep us posted.

Schiff · Post by **Schiff** » 10 Mar 2020, 19:18

Murdoch wrote:
ripio wrote:
Murdoch wrote:
The stats emerging from italy, are quite stark. A fatality rate of around 5%. And a hospitilasation rate of around 50%.
Source?
That hospitalisation rate seems wildly too high.
Italian Government: http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovoc ... menu=vuoto" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Google Translate:

Press conference at 6 pm on March 9th

9172 total cases, currently positive people are 7985, 463 dead and 724 recovered.

Among the 7985 positives:

2936 are in home isolation
4316 hospitalized with symptoms
733 in intensive care

This just suggests that they are only testing people with severe symptoms. There may be another 100,000 cases where people have mild, flu-like symptoms and simply aren't being tested for this virus.

Woody Guthrie · Post by **Woody Guthrie** » 10 Mar 2020, 19:28

This just suggests that they are only testing people with severe symptoms. There may be another 100,000 cases where people have mild, flu-like symptoms and simply aren't being tested for this virus.

What it actually means is that they've been isolating the early cases in hospital whether they needed hospital care or not.

That percentage will decrease as the virus spreads and people are told to self isolate at home.