‘A nurse with breast cancer is having to continue working through a 12-week course of intensive chemotherapy in order to keep up with the cost of living‘ * Sky News UK.
A Nurse is having to complete 3 shifts a week of 12.5 hours each. As she is an agency Nurse she is not entitled to Sick leave and she hasn’t been sick for long enough to qualify for a Government Disability payment.
Many companies in the UK do not pay any sick leave. The best you can hope for is a payment of Statutory Sick Pay after you have missed four days. You can get £99.35 a week Statutory Sick Pay ( SSP ) for up to 28 weeks. But may people working for agencies or on zero hour contracts simply won’t be invited to do any more work.