12 months sick leave

[ballee]

A colleague has been on sick leave with mental health issues for past 7 months. He is now on half pay and receives a payment from EWS to improve his wages. What happens when he reaches 12 months and his pay stops, he hopes to be back by then but in the event he isn’t what does he do to survive financially.

[POSTMAN]

Sick pay at pension rate...



Sick Pay and Sick Pay Conditions Policy

Entitlement

During absence from work due to sickness or injury, full- and part-time nonmanagerial employees recruited on or after 3 June 2002 will receive:
• During the first twelve months of service, statutory sick pay only

• After twelve months' service, full rate sick pay for the first six months (26 weeks) of any spell of absence, followed by half rate sick pay
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• Full rate sick pay will not be paid in total for more than 6 months (26 weeks) during any calendar year. Further periods will be paid at half rate, but no sick pay (other than at pension rate where applicable) will be paid when the employee has been absent for a total of 12 months (with or without pay) in any period of four years

• If entitlement to full and half rate sick pay has been exhausted, employees who are contributing members of the Royal Mail Pension Plan will be paid at a rate equivalent to the highest rate of pension they would be eligible to receive if dismissed on ill health grounds, or at sick pay at half rate if lower During absence from work due to sickness or injury, managerial employees, and other full- and part-time employees recruited before 3 June 2002 will receive:

• Full rate sick pay for the first six months (26 weeks) of any spell of absence followed by half rate sick pay

• Full rate sick pay will not be paid in total for more than 6 months (26 weeks) during any calendar year. Further periods will be paid at half rate, but no sick pay (other than at pension rate where applicable) will be paid when the employee has been absent for a total of 12 months (with or without pay) in any period of four years

• If entitlement to full and half rate sick pay has been exhausted, employees who are contributing members of the Royal Mail Pension Plan will be paid at a rate equivalent to the highest rate of pension they would be eligible to receive if retired on ill health grounds, or sick pay at half rate if lower

• Sick pay will not be paid for any period for which maternity pay is appropriate

• Casual employees are not eligible for any Royal Mail sick pay but may be entitled to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

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[ballee]

Thanks postman I will pass this on.

[rmchat112]

So am I right in thinking that beyond the 12 months once the 6 months half pay has been exhausted that they will pay " sick pay at pension rate " for an indefinite period of time? If this is the case then surely people would just stay on this indefinitely and never ever leave the company be it retire or resign?

I don't get this , is this same or similar to other companies too?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

So am I right in thinking that beyond the 12 months once the 6 months half pay has been exhausted that they will pay " sick pay at pension rate " for an indefinite period of time? If this is the case then surely people would just stay on this indefinitely and never ever leave the company be it retire or resign?

I don't get this , is this same or similar to other companies too?

Not for an indefinite period, but maybe for an undetermined period. In essence, this is the intermediate stage.

If RM and your doctors think you have an excellent chance of coming back then they put you onto this minimum wage to keep your pension accruing, it's very minimal though.

If however, at some point between 6 and 12 months of absence they think the chance of your return is quite low, then the business will start looking at Ill Health Retirement.