Section 11 | Statutory sick pay in Great Britain: lower earnings limit etc

(1)Part 11 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (statutory sick pay) is amended as follows.

(2)In section 157 (rates 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).