You got ill and took a sick leave? You need information on how a temporary disability benefit is calculated? In the material, you can read in what cases and in what amount your employer should pay for a sick slip.
Pursuant to Article 133 of the Labor Code, an employer should pay a temporary disability benefit at his/her own expense.
Thus, an employee should submit a sick slip to an accounting department and in case of its loss, s/he should provide a duplicate.
In which cases a temporary disability benefit is paid?
An employer should pay a temporary disability benefit at his/her own expense.
Grounding for payment of a temporary disability benefit is a sick slip issued under a procedure established by an authorized agency in the field of health.
A temporary disability benefit is paid out by an employer beginning from the first day of unemployment until the day of rehabilitation or until disability confirmation according to the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
When benefit is not paid?
- to an employee, whose temporary disability was induced by injuries inflicted during commitment of a criminal offence, in case if s/he was found guilty in a court decision that became final;
- for a period of compulsory treatment under court decision (except for mentally disabled);
- for a period of an employee being under arrest and a period of forensic medical examination, in case if s/he was found guilty in a court decision that became final;
- in case of temporary disability due to diseases or injuries inflicted by consumption of alcohol, drugs or toxic products;
- for temporary disability occurred on during a paid annual labour leave.
How the benefit calculations are determine?
A benefit amount cannot exceed 15-fold monthly calculation index.
A temporary disability benefit for employees, except for working participants/veterans of the Great Patriotic War and individuals equated to them, is calculated through multiplication of a daily average earning* to a quantity of working days which fall on a temporary incapacity period.
If a temporary incapacity has begun previous year and ended in a present year, then calculation of a benefit is performed with application of a monthly calculated index for a previous year and current year and afterwards, the sums are summed up.
Benefit settlement upon the sick leave certificate for definitely categories
Benefits for working participants/veterans of the Great Patriotic War and individuals equated to them are paid beginning from the first day of temporary disability in the amount of one hundred percent from an average salary.
Benefits paid due to work injuries or professional diseases are paid out by an employer in the amount of one hundred percent from an average salary beginning from the first day of temporary disability until the day of rehabilitation or until disability confirmation.
Benefits provided to take care after children younger than three years old to mother, father or other individual taking care after a child younger than three years old are assigned in the same manner as those that are assigned for a temporary incapacity to work.
Benefit provided to care after a temporary incapable family member is not given to employees having a scheduled or unpaid leave.
Benefit payment for the diplomatic service staff under the temporary incapacity to work
In case of getting ill when staying abroad, diplomatic service employees get the benefit:
- in national currency: within the whole period of illness;
- in foreign currency: based on calculation of an average salary rate in a foreign currency but for no more than two months.
If an illness lasts for more than two months and a sick person cannot go to the Republic of Kazakhstan (non-transportable) then the benefit in foreign currency is paid for the whole period of treatment abroad until a doctor’s decision on possibility of evacuation to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
* A daily average (hourly) earning is determined through division of salary sum on the days (hours) based on working time balance, in case of five or six days workweek.
