I'm pregnant but my unreasonable employer won't pay me when I'm sick [LBC Legal Hour]

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Daniel Barnett, Barrister

Daniel Barnett, Barrister

Күн бұрын

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@moonpunk
@moonpunk Ай бұрын
Something doesn't smell right here. Medical evidence from her GP, Occupational Health visits, all for just 1.5 days sick - she's not had 1.5 days off sick, I cry foul here!
@richardmack1194
@richardmack1194 27 күн бұрын
Reading between the lines, this woman sounds like an absolute pain in the arse employee
@horsedeal12
@horsedeal12 13 күн бұрын
“Every sickness that I’ve had I’ve had medical evidence as to why I was off work”. Yet only 1.5 days sick leave, not adding up here. She must have forgotten to say she absolutely rinsed the sick leave the previous year…
@Danfrank24
@Danfrank24 28 күн бұрын
Smells fishy to me nobody’s that bothered about 1.5 days off.
@retrogiftsuk4812
@retrogiftsuk4812 19 күн бұрын
Disappointed that Daniel didn't ask more about her contract. I simply don't believe that it says that they should pay her sick pay. Bad employers tend to pay statutory sick pay (SSP) where currently the law says they don't pay anything for the first 3 days sick of each period sick. My guess is that the 14 days sick pay in the contract is for people outside their probation period (so she hasn't been there long enough to get sick pay), or over a period longer than 1 year (and she's already used it). People often see what they want to see. I used to work in an office and would get calls from people saying "I've got a letter that says X". I'd have to get them to read out the whole sentence and it would include "except..." or "unless..." etc (meaning they it didn't apply to them) but they would mentally just block out the bits they didn't want to see.
@LemonLucozade
@LemonLucozade 7 ай бұрын
The classic line... "Am I entitled to anything"
@petercotton89
@petercotton89 Ай бұрын
If this is trues, it’s pretty obvious they just want to get rid before maternity pay!
@ForburyLion
@ForburyLion 19 күн бұрын
Statutory maternity pay comes from the state (via the company payroll), I doubt they have any enhanced scheme for someone who has been there fore less that two years. My employer is very generous and that's just 2-3 months of full pay depending on length of service above 1 year, then it's statutory pay only, there are other benefits too which also probably don't apply here (the joke we make is that the HR person who wrote the policy must have been pregnant at the time!)
@chillired5389
@chillired5389 7 ай бұрын
I hope all goes well with the little baby but Daniel was totally correct with the way he handled the call👍
@JaiJai-by4tp
@JaiJai-by4tp Ай бұрын
Try the building trade ,you get holiday pay and that's it ,you work or get nothing .
@lightweightben
@lightweightben 7 ай бұрын
I’ve taken so little sick leave and my employer doesn’t reset my sick entitlement each year. Thus at present I can take a year and a half sick on full pay. I see that as a good thing and not a balance to be spent. Really this caller just seems to be entitled.
@pottr147
@pottr147 7 ай бұрын
Sara is the problem here.
@stephencapel5630
@stephencapel5630 7 ай бұрын
She is a victim of victim culture, it doesn't mean she should be victimised though.
@darkzentai7417
@darkzentai7417 7 ай бұрын
Forgive my suspicious nature, but it does sound like she’s treating this like a pregnancy job. Get a job work it for just long enough to be entitled to maternity leave get pregnant take the maternity leave and leave after the babies born. So I can understand the frustration of the employer because they have a person they can do nothing with and have no idea if they’re coming back but they’re legally required to keep their job open so they can’t hire anyone .
@stephencapel5630
@stephencapel5630 7 ай бұрын
I can never understand why demographic decline is occurring, such support as this should never put off would be mothers. We will continue to import people, that's the way it is.
@darkzentai7417
@darkzentai7417 7 ай бұрын
@@stephencapel5630 it’s just the absence warnings are a red flag .
@stephencapel5630
@stephencapel5630 7 ай бұрын
@@darkzentai7417 Its the absences themselves that are a flag, don't know about a red one (in the eye of the beholder for that one, everyone but everyone has at some time taken sickness absence), but obv its pain when someone doesn't show up. Have to be a bit fair to the pregnant in this country I feel otherwise we'll be looking a system collapse like the South Koreans. But anyways I know HR will carry on in the same way.
@daryls43
@daryls43 Ай бұрын
You went 4 months without a footrest so in my eyes you didnt need it. Im probably a idiot but id just buy one if i needed it ..
@PlayerWellKnown
@PlayerWellKnown 18 күн бұрын
That’s a very simplified way of looking at it.
@tracer1127
@tracer1127 7 ай бұрын
It’s time that the rules changed in favour of the employer. You are paid to work and not owed a living from a company when you don’t turn up. If you are off work sick why should any business have to pay you. I’m self employed, I go to work and don’t get a penny if I’m sick. Self employed people get off their arse turn up they don’t bellyache about minor issues expecting everyone else to carry them. If you ain’t up to the job move on and stop sponging off your employer.
@Back4RoundTwo
@Back4RoundTwo 7 ай бұрын
You’re self employed by choice, if you want holiday pay or sick pay, budget yourself for it
@stephencapel5630
@stephencapel5630 7 ай бұрын
British people can often be entitled a*******s without even knowing how they are sounding. HR are a bunch people ripe to have their jobs nicked by robots and ai, most employee don't like them. Human capital is all important
@1violalass
@1violalass Ай бұрын
Why should they have to pay it? Because it's in her contract.
@simoncantwell9256
@simoncantwell9256 Ай бұрын
You’re self employed and don’t value yourself enough to budget for sickness?
@Danfrank24
@Danfrank24 28 күн бұрын
Good employers generally have good employees. I have 6 months sick pay but I’ve never used more than 4 weeks and that was a broken ankle.
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