Work advice

[Kurt.]

Ssp only in my job I do now
Previous local authority job was 6 months full pay then 6 at half pay

 

[Marius57]

Your age would be a factor, and also the type of work and likelihood of illness or injury through work, office work and paper cuts vs chemical worker and lung burn through gases, that sort of thing.
You seem more concerned about losing access to the sick pay as opposed to actual salary so that would siggest you've already decided that is more beneficial.

That's very valid, and I hadn't really thought about that in terms of how bothered I am about the salary as it just looks like a big bump.

I've been more thinking along the lines of things being equitable between us all at work as its been a bug bear of mine. But that may be more down to having not been offered it when they had it etc.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Bit of an odd one and just trying to work out whats considered standard before I make a decision on a change in my terms and conditions.

What is generally considered standard for the length of contractual full sick pay? (For full time, employed workers) before going onto SSP.

I currently get 6 months full pay which is inline with local authority workers (even though I'm in the private sector).

I had it in my head that about 4 weeks is standard.

It sounds like you have a choice between what you’re on now or a vastly reduced period. What is standard or otherwise doesn’t really come into it, not that “standard” is really a thing; it’ll depend entirely on what’s in your contract.

Ultimately you could bust your calculator out and find out what the mileage difference would be, etc, but I’d suggest in this day and age 6 months paid sick leave might well serve you better, especially if we’re locked down to any degree and your mileage goes down further.

 

[The binman chronicles]

We were taken over about 3 years ago, so staff are on different t's and c's and this is about bringing the older staff (on the original t's and c's) inline with the newer staff.

Essentially it's weighing up whether I want the £4.5k car allowance (and 17p per mile on top) with only 4 weeks sick leave full pay

Instead of 40p per mile expenses (I do about 3000 a year) with 6 months sick leave full pay.

There is a change in annual leave but my length of service will negate that in less than 2 years time.

My line of work sees lots of burnout and mental health absence but that's more in local authority than my role, but you never know when you may get ill.

But thats why i want to weigh up what's considered "standard" and commonplace.

How long would it take you to save 5 months take home pay using the extra 4.5k you gain? If you can do that within say 3 years then I would say that is the better deal. Unless you happen to be running a temperature at the moment, with heart palpitations, all the while your foot is looking a tad gangrene. In that case keep what you have.

 

[Marius57]

How long would it take you to save 5 months take home pay using the extra 4.5k you gain? If you can do that within say 3 years then I would say that is the better deal. Unless you happen to be running a temperature at the moment, with heart palpitations, all the while your foot is looking a tad gangrene. In that case keep what you have.

That's a good plan. I'm only 30, so would like to think I'm healthy. Saying that, I am going to the walk in centre tomorrow as damaged my foot and struggling to walk ?

 

[The binman chronicles]

That's a good plan. I'm only 30, so would like to think I'm healthy. Saying that, I am going to the walk in centre tomorrow as damaged my foot and struggling to walk ?

At your age the money should be more beneficial, the extra income also helps with mortgage and other loan applications too. If you can save a little rainy day money 2/3 months salary worth quite quickly and top that up a little thereafter then you should be fine.