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Fit notes (formerly sick notes), holiday during sick leave, returning to work, long-term sick, dismissals
Employers guide to assessing fitness to work, including asking for medical evidence, fit notes, and dealing with long term or frequent absences.
Your Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - how much you get, eligibility, how to claim SSP, fit notes, disputes.
You can get £116.75 per week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if you’re too ill to…
If you’re eligible, you can get £116.75 a week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)…
To qualify for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) you must: be classed as an…
To claim Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), tell your employer by the deadline.…
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get
Employer guide to Statutory Sick Pay - SSP rates, form SSP1, eligibility, fit notes (formerly sick notes), recover statutory pay.
How to calculate your employee's Statutory Sick Pay if you cannot use the GOV.UK calculator.
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
What to do if an employer ceases, becomes insolvent, takes over an existing business, or makes employees redundant whilst paying sick pay.
You can use the SC2 form to ask your employer for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
Full-time students from the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Switzerland studying in the UK can apply for a reimbursement of the immigration health surcharge (IHS).
This guidance provides information on COVID-19 in homelessness, domestic abuse refuge, respite room and asylum seeker accommodation settings.
Find out about different rules for entitlement that affect some employment types, including agency workers, directors and educational workers.
Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.
Guidance for living safely with respiratory infections, including coronavirus (COVID-19).
Find out about the symptoms of COVID-19, what to do if you or your child has them and when to get medical help.
What you need to do when paying sick pay to an employee who’s pregnant, in legal custody, in a trade dispute, has overpaid or underpaid, or earns below the Lower Earnings Limit.
If you have long COVID there is a range of support available.
How to get state healthcare if you live, work or study in Cyprus.
How to get state healthcare if you live, work or study in Sweden.
Information about the EU Regulations and their implementation in Northern Ireland
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