I am seeing an employee on Wednesday who has been off sick for 8 weeks, I
will be discussing a staged RTW with her. She is a member of staff so is on
a salary, her usual hours of work are 28hrs/week. HR have suggested she
return 1 hour per day for the first week and they only plan to pay her for
the hours she works. This lady's health problems fall within the Disability
Discrimination Act.
My question is, it is HR who have suggested 1 hour per day, which would mean
that in the first week she will earn less than what see would get SSP (her
company sick pay has now run out) can they do that?
She has been seen by the company doctor who is happy for her to RTW and who
thinks that she could manage more than 1 hr per day. He wondered where the
1hr had come from.
The money side of things is obviously a worry to her so could exacerbate her
illness.
I know that this isn't an occ health problem as such, but any advise would
be appreciated.
Julia
RGN
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