Workplace Report (October 2002)

Features: Law at Work

Sick pay

Employers will need to re-examine their sickness absence policies in the light of a recent EAT ruling. This held that the employer's failure to follow its own absence procedure properly meant that it did not have the right to invoke the procedure to stop an employee's sick pay.

* Robertson v Rockware Glass EAT 107/01


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