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- Employees' rights
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- Discrimination (England, Wales and Scotland)
- Discrimination in the workplace
- Racial discrimination
- Age discrimination
- Bullying in the workplace
- Disability discrimination
- Human rights in the workplace
- Religion or belief discrimination
- Sex discrimination and equal pay
- Marital status
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Gender reassignment
- Sexual orientation discrimination
- Sexual harassment (England, Wales and Scotland)
- Discrimination (Northern Ireland)
- Health and safety
- Pregnancy at work
- Shared parental leave and pay
- Paternity leave and pay
- Neonatal care leave and pay
- Parental bereavement leave and pay
- Adoption leave & pay
- Parental leave
- Emergency dependant leave
- Carer's leave (England, Wales and Scotland)
- Data protection
- The Employment Rights Act 2025 (England, Wales and Scotland)
- Looking for work
- Workplace disputes
Statutory sick pay changes
Removal of waiting period and qualifying conditions
Currently statutory sick pay (SSP) is payable from the 4th day of sickness, and the worker must also earn above the weekly lower earning limited to qualify for it.
From 6 April 2026, SSP is set to be payable from the first sick day, and the requirement to earn above the lower earnings limit will no longer apply.
It will mean the weekly SSP rate will change to the lower of 80% of the qualifying employee or worker's weekly earnings or statutory SSP rate.