Question re Sick Leave
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Topic: Question re Sick Leave
Posted By: MissCandice
Subject: Question re Sick Leave
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 12:14pm
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At my work we get 10 days sick leave a year, its worked out on hours you work.
I do 20 hours a week, my year runs september to september. I changed 11 Jan to 30 hours a week. How many hours sick leave am i entitled too? Our payroll lady is away and iv been shortchanged 30 HOURS! in my pay! ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
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Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 12:24pm
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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. |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 12:28pm
This is from the dept of labour websiteSick leave - Holidays Act 2003After six months with an employer, an employee is entitled to five days' paid sick leave during the next 12 months of employment. Sick leave can be taken for themselves or to care for their spouse, dependent child or parent. Unused sick leave can accumulate up to 20 days. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Nic01
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 12:43pm
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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 ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 12:50pm
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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? Not including me going up to 30 hours. Does that sound right? I done 30 hours additional work. They pay a week in advance and a week behind. So for example, todays pay would have been last week plus this/next week. I took 2x days sick last week. 1 x 8hr and 1x 6 hour. Plus a full week as Kylah was sick and in hospital last month. So i should still have got my additional hours and my full pay right? If of course i had the sick hours left, which from my understanding i did.. ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:58pm
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. |
KylahsMum wrote:Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:08pm
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I would have thought that the 10 days would be pro rata'd based on what you normally work.
For example .. the holidays act allows for four weeks annual leave (so it would be the company policy), however your four weeks allowance would be less than mine because you work half the number of hours. (IYKWIM) ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:20pm
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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! ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:22pm
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don't forget also, sometimes sick pay is accrued as you go. so even if you are entitled to 10 days per year, that might work out at about 0.8 days per month....most companies i know of won't give you sick leave in advance, as they cannot claim it back if you leave working there (whereas annual leave they can) -------------  
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Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:23pm
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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! ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:25pm
well bugger then!  -------------
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Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:28pm
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Apart from this current issue they are great to work for.. but i think its just so that we stay haha! ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:41pm
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Regardless of whether you're over sick leave or not it doesn't change the fact that they can't just make it unpaid leave without talking to you so there shouldn't be any circumstances where you get shortchanged 30 hours of work. -------------  
 
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 3:03pm
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Shouldnt it have listed at the bottom of your payslips how many annual and sick leave you currently have owing? ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 3:06pm
It shows annual but not sick, and we dont get our payslips untill 2 days AFTER our pay, so i dont get it till thursday  ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |