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Off Sick: 3 Things Your Employer Won't Tell You

The three things that catch people out when they're signed off: the money, the contact from work, and how a sickness absence can turn into a dismissal.

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What you'll get

THING 1
Your sick pay
What Statutory Sick Pay pays and for how long, why you should check your contract for company sick pay, and what happens when the money stops.
THING 2
The contact from work
The signs that contact has gone too far, and what a welfare meeting is for.
THING 3
Being off sick doesn't stop a dismissal
Why the 12-month point matters, and the time limit you need to watch.
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What this guide actually does

01
Know what sick pay you may be owed, and where to check what your contract says.
02
Tell normal contact from work apart from contact that has gone too far.
03
See how a long sickness absence can lead to dismissal, and why the 12-month point matters.
04
Start the written record from day one: fit notes, calls, emails and meetings, each with the date.
A note on AI

Why this isn't a ChatGPT printout

AI is good at summarising the law. It is not good at applying it to your specific letter, your specific employer's pattern, or the procedural choice that fits this exact situation.

Claimants email this account every week with replies they've drafted using ChatGPT. The replies are confident, fluent, and wrong. The wording escalates a defence that should have been kept narrow. Or it concedes ground the law would have given them. Or it answers a question that hadn't actually been asked.

A prominent HR creator recently said "don't worry about your ET1, just get ChatGPT to write it." That is dangerous.

Every guide here is built from real case work, refined over weeks, and reviewed line by line. Same starting point a private client gets in a £500 + VAT initial consultation. Without the £500.

Why this guide exists

Solicitor-grade work, compressed

Each guide is built from the cases and questions that come into the firm. The same kind of detail a private client would receive in a £500 + VAT initial consultation, structured so you can use it at home, before HR escalates anything.

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