SPM10545 – Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - Employees who cannot receive SSP when they go sick

Short contract employees

Employees were not entitled to SSP if they were employed on a contract of employment for a specified period of three months or less unless:

• the contract was for an unspecified period of more than three months;
• the contract was for less than three months but the employee worked for more than three months or the contract was extended for more than three months, or
• the contracts were separated by eight weeks or less from an earlier one with the same employer and the total period covered by the contract or worked by the employee was 13 weeks or more. Entitlement to SSP started from the beginning of a PIW after it became known that the period of employment would be for more than 13 weeks.