Sickness absence and sick pay - a guide for trade unions and working people (December 2018)

Chapter 5

Workforce groups

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Although SSP provides a common framework for most kinds of worker and industry there are exceptions, special arrangements or particular rules that affect: agricultural workers; casual, zero-hour contract and agency workers; educational term-time workers; directors; mariners; employees with two contracts or jobs; and employees working outside the UK on the first day of a period of incapacity for work (PIW).


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