Rejected petition Ensure that sick pay is raised from £94.25 to the employee's full wage.

Given the unprecedented situation with COVID-19 Coronavirus and the need for people to self isolate for up to 14 days, rapid changes need to be made with regards to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).

Currently, SSP stands at £94.25 a week. This is not good enough and must be raised to a full weeks wage.

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£94.25 is simply not enough for people to live on in modern Britain.

We understand that people must self isolate for the good of public health but financially it's simply not possible for many, under SSP.

Statutory Sick Pay must be risen to match an employee's full weekly wage or at a rate of the living wage for 37 hours, in the case of those who are self employed/on zero hours contracts.

This change absolutely must happen in order to tackle Coronavirus effectively, and must happen now!

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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301652

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

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Date submitted 20 March 2020
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