A “new deal” on sick pay is needed for workers, Priti Patel and Sir Robert Buckland have said, with the pair of former Cabinet ministers calling for an extension of statutory sick pay from day one of illness.
Statutory sick pay is currently £110 per week, but the two senior Conservatives – who both served under Boris Johnson – are calling for “simple tweaks” amid concerns that the Government is currently “subsidising low sick pay”.
