UK
Do employers have to pay employees who are off sick with
diagnosed coronavirus?
Yes, employees will be entitled to the employer’s usual
sick leave and pay provisions, including statutory sick pay. The
government has announced that the three-day waiting period for
statutory sick pay will be removed temporarily for
coronavirus-related absences, backdated to 13 March. The Chancellor
also announced that it will reimburse employers with fewer than 250
employees any coronavirus-related statutory sick pay they pay
employees for the first two weeks of sickness, backdated to 14
March.
The government has launched online “isolation notes”
to provide evidence of the need to self-isolate when someone is
absent for more than seven days due to having symptoms of
coronavirus.
