More than a million workers who are not very paid in in the United Kingdom are entitled to 80% of their weekly salary as illness in the first day of the disease, in the context of government plans.
Currently, British workers earning less than £ 123 per week are not entitled to any salary of statutory disease.
“No one should ever have to choose between their health and earn a living, which is why we make this historical change,” said Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
The unions have asked that the sick remuneration rate will be increased in the future.
“The new rate is good for workers and fair for businesses as part of our plan to increase rights and pay the work, while providing our change plan,” said Kendall.
However, some groups ask the government to set sick wages for the least paid workers to no less than 95% of their weekly salary.
TUC Secretary General Paul Nowak said, “It shouldn’t be the end of history.
“We urge ministers in the future to increase the replacement rate for the lowest employees beyond 80% and to undertake a broader examination of the rate of remuneration in statutory sickness.”
The Government states that the changes will mean that around 1.3 million people on low wages that fall sick will receive 80% of their average weekly profits or the current statutory disease salary which is £ 118.75 per week – the lowest.
This decision is part of a certain number of updates to the bill on employment rights which should be announced on Tuesday, and aims to keep more people to withdraw services and increase the standard of living.
However, the planned increase in employment rights, as well as the salary and minimum hike up the national insurance of employers, have led to criticism from many companies, who say that it will reach growth and employment.
On the weekend, it appeared that the government did not include “right to go out” for the workers of the bill.
This measure had been proposed to prevent employers from contacting staff out of hours on phones, emails and SMS.
A government source told Sunday Times that: “The right to go out is dead. We must reduce commercial compliance costs as much as possible.”
