The legislator has established several rules for calculating sick leave. You need to know not only the employee’s earnings and the number of sick days, but also adjust the calculations taking into account the length of service and the sick leave limit. The minimum and maximum for average earnings change annually: the maximum is indexed, the minimum depends on the minimum wage. In this article, you will learn how certain norms will affect the amount of actual disability benefits, taking into account the length of service.
The insurance period for sick leave ultimately determines what the amount of the benefit will be. For example, employee A has a work experience of 16 years - she is entitled to a full sick leave, and employee B worked only 7 years at the time of illness - her average earnings will be taken into account only by 80%, for employee C with an experience of 8 months. a coefficient of 0.6 will be applied to the average earnings. How to understand these adjustments and know exactly how much sick leave is paid.
Sick leave insurance
The formula for calculating sick leave remains the same:
Average earnings * number of sick days
Earnings are calculated taking into account the length of service, and the period of disability is measured in calendar days.
How does the length of service for sick leave affect the amount of benefits? Let's consider the following table:
So, the legislator requires that the average earnings be adjusted according to the length of service, while the basis for issuing sick leave must also be taken into account. For example, for one's own illness, 100 percent sick leave payment for an experience of 8 or more years. Only 80% of the average earnings are due when calculating sick leave by an employee with 5-8 years of experience. A 60% limit applies to those employed who went on sick leave with an experience of up to 5 years.
IMPORTANT: 100% of average earnings will be taken into account when calculating the sick leave benefit if the illness/injury was caused by an accident at work or hazardous/harmful working conditions, regardless of length of service.
At the same time, the calculation of the length of service for sick leave includes only the following periods of activity:
What length of service is taken into account when calculating sick leave
It turns out that the legislator has clearly fixed which periods should be included in the length of service for sick leave. This is first of all:
- work activity of an employee under an employment contract
- the period of registration at the labor exchange and receiving unemployment benefits
Labor activity under the contract and the period of official unemployment are the main periods that increase the calculation of the insurance period for sick leave, but not everyone knows that time should also be included in it:
- military service or alternative service
- public works by law
- caring for a child under 1.5 years old and a disabled / elderly
Indeed, military service, caring for children and the elderly increases the length of service for sick leave in 2016. All the necessary information can be obtained on the basis of a work book or special official certificates.
If you do not know how to find out the insurance period for sick leave, go to the personnel department of your company. An employee of the personnel service, based on your labor, will calculate the interest on sick leave, depending on the length of service.
How to calculate the insurance period for a sick leave example
Ekaterina Viktorovna was on parental leave for 3 years, after which she went to work. Having worked completely at one enterprise for 2.5 years, she moved to another company and got a job there from December 1, 2014. The employee applied to the personnel service with a sick leave in August 2016. How will the sick leave be paid depending on the length of service in 2016 for Ekaterina Viktorovna?
The following periods will be included in the experience for accruing sick leave in 2016:
- caring for a child until he reaches 1.5 years - 1.5 years
- work under a contract at the 1st place of work - 2.5 years
- work at the current enterprise from 12/01/14 to 07/31/16 - 20 months.
The length of service for the sick leave of an employee as of 08/01/2016 will be 68 months. or 5 years and 8 months. This means that the interest on the length of service when calculating sick leave will be equal to 80 in this particular case.
How to calculate the insurance period for sick leave: normative
The calculation and payment of benefits, taking into account the length of service and limit values, is regulated by law. If you need to find out how the insurance period for sick leave is considered, you should refer to the following legal acts:
- 255-FZ on compulsory social insurance for the period of disability
- the procedure for calculating benefits, approved. Government Decree 37
- rules for confirmation of insurance experience, approved. Order 91 of social development
IMPORTANT: the calculation of the length of service for sick leave does not take into account breaks in work, the length of service is calculated in a calendar order, every 30 days = 1 month, every 12 months = 1 year (see clause 21 of the Rules for confirming the length of service for social insurance benefits).
Special automated solutions allow not only to quickly calculate the length of service of an employee, but also to determine the amount of temporary disability benefits.
How to calculate the insurance period for sick leave in practice
Most employees know that the amount of sick leave, depending on the length of service, will be different. You can find out your percentage when paying for the ballot by examining the entries in the work book. Request the original document from the accounting service or carefully study the copy of the form. This is quite enough to calculate the length of service for the sick leave at the end of the month in which the sick leave was taken and approximately deduce the amount of the allowance for issuance. You can also ask for help from the personnel department if it was not possible to independently determine the% for sick leave.
If you do not know how the length of service for sick leave is calculated and want to know the basis for the calculation, ask an accountant or personnel officer to give you the appropriate sick leave calculation. There you will see what your average daily earnings and sick pay, depending on the length of service. If you know for sure that you have worked for more than 8 years, then you may not be interested in the amount of benefits depending on the length of service, as you will be calculated based on 100% earnings. The only thing that can reduce the amount to be issued is the maximum sick leave limit, which changes over the years, taking into account indexation.
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