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[Closed] Can my employer do this legally?

hypnonewt · 2020-01-06T18:31:53Z

Over the Christmas period I was scheduled to work on the 27th and 30th of December. I was ill over Christmas so phoned in sick on both those days, as per company policy. I would have been the only person in the office so if I wanted to have those days off I could have just clocked in and left again. The deputy manager and 'big boss man' of the company (owner) claim I called in sick to get more days off and they quote “expected that I would call in sick“ because I have no more holiday days left. So now they say those days are going to be unpaid, and I should have come in to prove I was ill and then gone home. Something they seem to have decided between them to try and get out of paying me. Basically what I am asking is can they refuse to pay me based purely on the fact that they assumed I would call in sick? Or do they legally have to at least pay me statutory sick pay? For the record I was ill and so were most of the office, only difference being the rest of the office wasted holiday days being ill instead.

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Phil_H

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but my gf is a nurse and has to book bank holidays out of annual leave. Bloody disgusting.

Mrs H is a nurse working shifts for NHS Scotland, if she works on a bank holiday she gets paid extra for it and gets to take the bank holiday at another time. I'm not sure what's "bloody disgusting" about that? More money for the same shift seems like a winner to me.

Posted : 08/01/2020 12:08 am

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