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HR tip: Disabled employee and sickness benefit

Employers must continue paying sick pay to disabled employees only if they failed to make reasonable adjustments to enable the employee to work. Once contractual sick pay is exhausted, the obligation to pay depends on whether proper workplace accommodations were implemented under disability rights law.
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Question:"One of my employees is a disabled person who has been off sick for several months and has now exhausted his contractual sick pay entitlement. Because he is disabled do I have to continue to pay sick pay?"

HR Tip:
You need do this only if you failed to make reasonable adjustments to the working environment to enable the employee to work.

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