This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Make it the law for companies to give statutory sick pay if workers are sick.
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In some fixed contract jobs sick pay is not offered even with evidence. Some of these companies include supermarkets who pay workers that have worked in their company for a certain period of time and other workers do not get sick pay.In other companies workers get nothing even if they have evidence.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
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You can find out who is eligible for statutory sick pay here:
https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay/eligibility
You could start a new petition asking for a specific change to who's eligible for statutory sick pay, if that's what you'd like to happen.
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