0 money given by an employer to someone who cannot work because of illness --
1 money paid to a worker who is not at work because they are ill: --
They have made it clear that they want to move the burden of sick pay on to employers.
Subsection (3) abolishes employers' entitlement to compensation for the national insurance contributions they must pay on statutory sick pay.
We opposed it vigorously in 1995, deploring the fact that many people who qualified for sick pay would no longer qualify.
We welcome the improved credit facilities and the provisions relating to sick pay for agricultural workers.
Employees who are off work sick may be entitled to statutory sick pay from their employer.
No fewer than 5 million people have had their entitlement to statutory sick pay reduced in the past two years.
It has been suggested again and again that all will be well if we throw employees to the wolves without statutory sick pay.
The best employers already run excellent statutory sick pay schemes.
