How to get sick pay during a company's downtime?

Conditions for receiving sick leave during downtime: Sick pay may be paid to those employees who, under the employer's order for downtime, are required to be present at the workplace or at another place designated by the employer, in compliance with the established work schedule.

The process of processing payments:

1. Appeal to the employer: The procedure begins with the employee's application to the employer.
2. Submission of a claim: The employer must prepare a claim and submit it to the Social Insurance Fund of Ukraine together with a certificate of incapacity for work.

Payments directly through the Fund in difficult cases: If the employer is unable to do so due to certain circumstances (e.g., hostilities or other exceptional situations that make it impossible to guarantee payments), the employee may apply directly to the Social Insurance Fund:

●      In person or through a legal representative, apply to the office of the Social Insurance Fund of Ukraine at the place of registration or at the place of registration as an internally displaced person.