Statutory Sick Pay(SSP)

What is SSP?
SSP stands for Statutory Sick Pay.
Why should an employer pay this to employees?
According to UK legislation, provided an employee satisfies certain conditions, whenever he takes certain types of leaves, the employer has to pay him the SSP.
What are all the Steps involved?
1.Defining the Time Unit
2.Defining the Qualifying Pattern
3.Defining the calendar
4.Assign the calendar to the Business Group or to a particular employee.
5.Define the elements and element links
6.Define the Absence Types
7.Enter the absences for employees
8.This creates the corresponding element entries
9.Run the quick pay and make sure that the employee is paid the SSP accordingly.

We will see all these steps in detail below
1. Time Unit & Qualifying pattern: To understand this, we need to understand the Qualifying pattern first.
If an employee is on leave on Monday and if he is Sick, then we have to pay SSP. But if is sick on a Sunday there is no requirement to pay SSP. So the weekdays will be Qualifying days while weekends will be non-qualifying days. The time unit acts as a component for the same.



3.Defining the calendar
Here we are defining the date range in which the Qualifying pattern is valid


4.Assign the calendar to the Business Group or to a particular employee.
We have to attach the calendar to the Business Group itself or to an employee alone.

5.Define the elements and element links
There are two elements provided by Oracle for SSP. "Statutory Sick Pay" and "SSP Corrections". But they are non-payments. So we have to define our own Earnings element and pass the seeded element's run result value to our element using Fast Formula.



6.Define the Absence Types

7.Enter the absences for employees

8.This creates the corresponding element entries

9. Run the quick pay and make sure that the employee is paid the correct SSP.