Change of Contract of Employment. HELP!

I couldn't afford an employee on the sick for that length of time. It would bankrupt me. I'd fire and face the consequences.

I think your colleague is taking the **** and needs to take a reality check as to whether he wants a job or not. It's pretty dismal to start whining cos the generous sick pay disappears and he has to put up with SSP. He shoud be so lucky. Whilst I love being self-employed and wouldn't want to change, I don't get sick pay at all, and nobody bails me out if I don't feel up to coming to work.

you can't be working that hard if you have spent the best part of an hour posting this

edit: in fact looking at your posts today, you have spent pretty much all day on here (rough average 17ish minutes between posts)

you sound a bit over dramatic

Had a similar thing to Fizz, They changed some stuff in the IT depts contracts a while back, basically we're working for a euro support group now and not the uk operating company... I never signed but have since been told i'm under that contract now anyway.......

If he did resign he certainly wouldn't be able to sign on straight away

In my, admittedly limited, experience, it's usually easier to get a job than get any money out of the dole.