This article links the sick pay cases to legal action. Are they suggesting that there are over 1000 pending Tribunal or breach of contract civil claims outstanding ? - I haven't personnaly heard of any such volume of outstanding cases (which would I assume be common knowledge as it would be very exceptional), or is it just falsely linking some internal grievance procedure cases with "legal action"? Given that it is now well over 3 months since the sick-pay would have been paid, it's now too late to commence an industrial tribunal claim, and I think a civil claim would fall into the same bracket, this would seem to be yet more disinformation.