http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/13/enactedEmployment Rights Act 2025enKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2025-12-22
Part 1Employment rightsStatutory sick payStatutory sick pay in Northern Ireland: lower earnings limit etc
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1
Part 11 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (statutory sick pay) is amended as follows.
2
In section 153 (rate of payment), for subsection (1) substitute—
1
The weekly rate of statutory sick pay that an employer must pay to an employee is the lower of—
a
£118.75, and
b
80% of the employee’s normal weekly earnings.
3
In Schedule 11 (circumstances in which periods of entitlement to statutory sick pay do not arise), in paragraph 2, omit paragraph (c) (lower earnings limit).