15. SICKNESS PAYMENTS
Scale of Allowances
- An employee absent from work owing to illness (which includes injury or other disability) shall be entitled to receive an allowance in accordance with the following scale:
during 1st year of service 1 month's full pay and
(after completing 4 months service) 2 month's half pay.
during 2nd year of service 2 month's full pay and
2 month's half pay.
during 3rd year of service 4 month's full pay and
4 month's half pay.
during 4th and 5th years service 5 month's full pay
and 5 month's half pay.
after 5 year's service 6 month's full pay and
6 month's half pay.
nb.
One month shall be deemed to be equivalent to 26 working days. Saturday being redeemed in all cases as a working day.
- The University has the discretion to extend the application of the foregoing scale in exceptional cases and will review the position of an employee at an early opportunity and before their entitlement to sick pay ceases.
- Part-time officers working regularly not less than 15 hours per week shall have applied to them the provision of this scheme relating to sickness payments. where less than 15 hours per week are worked the matter shall be at the discretion of the University.
- Temporary staff employed for a period of more than 3 months will be eligible to payments in line with the provision of the Scheme.
GRANT OF SICK PAY TO VICTIMS OF CRIMES OF VIOLENCE
Where an employee is absent from work because of an injury in respect of which a claim will lie to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and the employee is otherwise qualified to receive sick pay in accordance with this paragraph, such sick pay shall be disbursed to them without their being required to refund any proportion of it from the sum which the Compensation Board may award, and
Where an award has been made by the Compensation Board, the University should be free to discount wholly or partly the period of sick leave occasioned by the injury in calculating the employees future entitlement to sick pay, as they may see fit on consideration of all the material circumstances.
SICKNESS REPORTING PROCEDURE
FIRST DAY
If you are unable to attend work because of sickness, you must contact your immediate superior or other designated officer, by telephone or through some other person, at or shortly after the time you would normally start work on that day (normally not later than 1½ hours after normal start time). You must inform him/her of reason for your absence (not just "sick") and if possible, the probable period of absence.
FOURTH DAY
If the period of absence was estimated at three working days or less, but you are unable to return to work, you must notify your immediate superior or other designated officer of your continuing ill-health not later than the fourth working day of absence (preferably not later than 1½ hours after normal start time).
MORE THAN ONE WEEK
If you are sick for more than one week you must visit your doctor immediately and should submit a medical certificate to your immediate superior or their designated officer not later than the eighth consecutive calendar day of absence.
CONTINUING SICKNESS
Doctors Certificate must be submitted to your immediate superior or there designated officer for all periods of sickness, after the first week's absence, at the required intervals.
An absence of one week means continuous absence from work over a period of seven consecutive days which may include both working and non working days.
NOTE
It is very important that you comply with the regulations laid down. If you do not, there is every possibility that any allowances to which you are entitled will be delayed and could ultimately result in loss of sick pay.
Anyone who knowingly submits false information regarding their incapacity to work may render themselves liable to disciplinary action under the University Disciplinary Procedure.
CONTACT WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ETC - PERSONS DEEMED TO BE INCAPABLE OF WORK
(a) An employee who in accordance with the National Insurance Act is prevented from attending his place of employment because of contact with infectious disease shall notify his direct supervisor immediately and shall be entitled to receive full pay less any benefits payable under the Act. A period of absence on this account shall not be reckoned against the employees entitlement to normal sick leave.
(b) In the case of contact with other infectious or contagious diseases the employee should not stay away from duty if they feel well, but should report the fact of contact to their direct supervisor.
REIMBURSEMENT OF COST OF DOCTOR'S STATEMENTS
Where for the purposes of qualifying for an allowance under this Scheme the Supervisor requires a doctor's statement from an employee, any cost incurred in obtaining such doctors' statements will be reimbursed.
MEDICAL EXAMINATION
The University may at any time require an employee to submit to an examination to a medical practitioner nominated by the University, subject to the provisions of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 where applicable. The Staff Health Physician of Sunderland Area Health Authority may from time to time be asked to carry out an independent examination of any employee. Any expenses incurred by such examinations will be incurred by the University
INDUSTRIAL INJURY
A period of absence due to injury sustained by an employee in the actual discharge of their duty and without their own default shall not be recorded for the purposes of this scheme.
An employee who is absent as a result of an accident shall not be entitled to an allowance if damages may be receivable from a third party in respect of such an accident. In this event, the University may, having regard to the circumstances of the case, advance to the employee, a sum not exceeding the sickness allowance provided under this scheme, subject to the employee undertaking to refund to the University the total amount of such allowances or the proportion thereof represented in the amount of damages received., Any period of absence in such a case where a refund of the moneys advanced is made in full, shall not be recorded for the purposes of the scheme. Where, however, the refund is made in part only, the University may at its discretion decide to what extent, if any, the period of absence may be so recorded.
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