If the employee is sick, the employer cannot terminate the labor contract according to Articles 40 and 41 of the Labor Contract Law within the prescribed medical treatment period. If the employer terminates the labor contract in violation of the provisions of this law and the laborer requests to continue to perform the labor contract, the employer shall continue to perform it; If the employee does not request to continue to perform the labor contract or the labor contract cannot be continued, the employer shall pay compensation to the employee at twice the economic compensation standard.
If there is any dispute, the laborer may apply to the Labor Arbitration Committee for arbitration (free of charge) to protect his rights according to law.
Labor Contract Law
Article 42 The employing unit shall not terminate the labor contract in accordance with the provisions of Articles 40 and 41 of this Law if the laborer is under any of the following circumstances:
(1) The worker who is engaged in the operation exposed to occupational hazards fails to undergo the occupational health examination before leaving his post, or the suspected occupational disease patient is in the period of diagnosis or medical observation;
(2) Suffering from occupational diseases or work-related injuries in this unit and being confirmed to have lost or partially lost the ability to work;
(3) Being sick or injured non-work-related, and within the prescribed medical treatment period;
(four) female workers during pregnancy, childbirth and lactation;
(5) Having worked continuously in this unit for fifteen years and being less than five years away from the statutory retirement age;
(6) Other circumstances stipulated by laws and administrative regulations.
Forty-seventh economic compensation shall be paid according to the standard of one month's salary for each full year of work in the unit. For more than six months but less than one year, it shall be counted as one year; If it is less than six months, economic compensation of half a month's salary shall be paid to the workers.
If the monthly salary of workers is three times higher than the average monthly salary of local workers announced by the people's government of the municipality directly under the central government or the city divided into districts where the employer is located, the standard for paying economic compensation to workers is three times the average monthly salary of workers, and the longest period for paying economic compensation to workers shall not exceed 12 years.
The monthly salary mentioned in this article refers to the average salary of workers in the twelve months before the dissolution or termination of the labor contract.
Article 48 If the employer dissolves or terminates the labor contract in violation of the provisions of this Law, and the laborer requests to continue to perform the labor contract, the employer shall continue to perform it; If the laborer does not request to continue to perform the labor contract or the labor contract cannot be continued, the employer shall pay compensation in accordance with the provisions of Article 87 of this Law.
Article 87 Where an employing unit dissolves or terminates a labor contract in violation of the provisions of this Law, it shall pay compensation to the laborer at twice the economic compensation standard stipulated in Article 47 of this Law.