Qualifying deduction
A qualifying deduction is the amount taken off sick pay when an employee is off sick. Since 2019 it has been a fixed deduction equal to 20 per cent of an average week of sick pay, which replaced the old qualifying day and makes the deduction the same whenever in the week somebody falls ill.
Updated
- Category
Absence
- Also known as
karensavdrag · karens
- Sources
Lag (1991:1047) om sjuklön, the Sick Pay ActChanges effective 1 January 2019, the qualifying deduction replacing the qualifying day
The 2019 reform solved a fairness problem. Under the old qualifying day, somebody who fell ill on a day with a long shift lost more than somebody who fell ill on a short day, and shift workers were hit hardest.
The new deduction is 20 per cent of sick pay for an average working week, which makes it independent of which day the absence begins.
The deduction is calculated on sick pay and therefore needs the employee's salary and level of employment. A time system can supply how many hours the absence covered, but not the deduction in kronor.
How Timply handles it
Timply delivers sick absence as hours on the code SJK, with the extent in per cent for part-time sick leave. The qualifying deduction is calculated in the payroll system, because it needs salary figures Timply does not hold.
Related terms
Care of a sick child
VAB stands for vård av sjukt barn, care of a sick child, and means a parent stays away from work to look after a child who is ill. The payment comes from Försäkringskassan as temporary parental benefit, not from the employer as sick pay.
Collective agreement
A collective agreement is a written agreement between an employers' organisation or employer and a trade union on pay and terms of employment. In practice it decides premium levels, overtime pay, the number of holiday days and departures from the Working Hours Act.
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