http://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/433/article/22/madeThe Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2018enKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2019-05-23AGRICULTURE, WALES This Order revokes and replaces, subject to some changes and a transitional provision, the Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2017. PART 4 22 1 Agricultural sick pay is payable at a rate which is equivalent to the minimum hourly rate of pay prescribed in article 12 of, and Schedule 4 to, this Order as applicable to that grade or category of agricultural worker. 2 The amount of agricultural sick pay payable to an agricultural worker is determined by calculating the number of daily contractual hours that would have been worked during a period of sickness absence. 3 The number of daily contractual hours are determined— a in circumstances where an agricultural worker works a fixed number of hours each week by dividing the total number of hours worked during any week by the number of days worked in that week; b in circumstances where an agricultural worker works a varying number of hours each week, by applying the formula— $$\frac{\text{QH}÷\text{8}}{\text{DWEW}}$$ for the purposes of this article: QH is the total number of qualifying hours in the period, and DWEW is the number of days worked each week by the agricultural worker when taken as an average during a period of 8 weeks immediately preceding the commencement of the sickness absence. 4 In this article “qualifying hours” are hours where— a the agricultural worker worked basic hours or guaranteed overtime; b the agricultural worker took annual leave or bereavement leave; c the agricultural worker had sickness absence qualifying for agricultural sick pay under this Order; or d the agricultural worker had sickness absence not qualifying for agricultural sick pay under this Order; and “qualifying days” are any days within the period on which there were qualifying hours relating to the agricultural worker. 5 For the purposes of calculations under this article, where an agricultural worker has been employed by their employer for less than 8 weeks, account must be taken of qualifying hours and qualifying days in the actual number of weeks of the agricultural worker’s employment with their employer.