Question re Sick Leave

I would say that you would have been entitled to 5 days total (September till now) and that you will be entitled to probably another 2(ish) for the rest of the year going forward due to the change in hours.

ETA I'm not in payroll or anything, that is just what I would expect if it were me.

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Sick leave is normally paid out at your relevant daily pay. If you work 30 hours per week ie 6 hours per day, then for each sick day you should have most probably been paid out at the equivalent of 6 hours pay. 30 hours is a lot - did you take the full 5 days off? Other reasons they might not have paid it out could be because they are waiting for a doctors certificate or you have already used your full entitlement.

Not sure if I've read your post properly though - do you just mean how many days you'd be entitled to given that they allow 10 days leave a year? I would assume that you would get 10 days based on whatever hours you were working when you take that sick leave (not when you become entitled to it) - ie now you are working 30 hours a week, you would be entitled to 10 days or 60 hours sick leave given that you work 6 hours a day.

Give the Dept of Labour a call to clear things up - they are usually pretty helpful. Their website is quite good too www.ers.govt.nz

KylahsMum wrote: They have a company sick policy that is 10 days. So from what i have worked out is i was working 3 days a week, 20 divided by 2 = 6.66 a day, so i done 6.66 x 10 = 66.6 hours?

So the company policy is for 10 days for everyone, not dependent on if you are full or part time? In that case yes you should get paid if you only took 5 days when Kylah was in hospital and 2 days last week (and you would have 3 left). If you only get half the sick allocation (ie because you only work 20 hours instead of 40) you would only be entitled to 5 days sick leave and that would have been used when Kylah was in hospital. It really depends how your contract is worded.

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Lilfatty thats is how it works, i still get 10 days its just prorata'd. So i still get 4 weeks leave, just prorata'd to suit me being full time.

Im so confuzzled! 30 hours additional is alot for them to 'forget' and its the 2nd time this has happened, they wont fix it up either untill next pay (a fortnight away) if it is wrong. Im so upset!

We get sick leave and holidays in advance from the day we start.. So instead of having to wait 6 months like most places we get as soon as we are employed..

You should see their company maternity its really good too!

Apart from this current issue they are great to work for.. but i think its just so that we stay haha!

Shouldnt it have listed at the bottom of your payslips how many annual and sick leave you currently have owing?