{"id":10223,"date":"2024-01-24T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=10223"},"modified":"2024-01-24T22:11:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T22:11:57","slug":"britain-sick-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/britain-sick-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain &#038; sick pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While considering motions to go to GMB\u2019s National Congress, I and my comrades considered sick leave and sick pay. Some of the saddest stories I have from my time acting as an accompanying rep come from people who have been long term sick and thus suffered a serious decrement in their income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>This article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurodev.com\/blog\/sick-leaves-in-europe-2022\">Sick Leave in Europe 2022<\/a>\u201d, shows that the UK has the least generous statutory sick pay within the EU\/EEA, actually Malta is worse but being 27<sup>th<\/sup> out of 28 is not something to boast about. This article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tribunemag.co.uk\/2023\/09\/starmers-sick-pay-betrayal\">Starmer\u2019s Sick Pay Betrayal<\/a>\u201d, published in tribune, tells the story of Labour\u2019s retreat from a meaningful reform. Several countries offer 100% of wages, and of course many businesses offer something better to their senior workers, with 6 months at 100% and 6 months at 50% being reasonable asks. Later jobs in my career not only offered PHI benefit, but also significant lump sum payments if one was unable to return to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not a unique retreat, there have been several steps away from the original promise in \u201ca new deal for workers\u201d. See also my article <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/backtracking-on-macro\/\">on Labour\u2019s retreats on macroeconomics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rate needs to be increased and linked to a workers wages or to the NLW, and waiting time needs to be abolished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While considering motions to go to GMB\u2019s National Congress, I and my comrades considered sick leave and sick pay. Some of the saddest stories I have from my time acting as an accompanying rep come from people who have been long term sick and thus suffered a serious decrement in their income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[140],"tags":[1007,141,2037,2032,2038],"class_list":["post-10223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-european-union","tag-politics-2","tag-sick-pay","tag-social-security","tag-ssp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/111813218464112409","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/inbed-kingahoward-unsplash-w1080.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10225,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223\/revisions\/10225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}