Sick pay changes could benefit UK firms by up to £2bn, TUC says | TUC

According to the analysis assigned by the main union organs of the UK, changes made to cover some of the salaries of the first day’s workers can benefit British businesses for £ 2 billion.

The Congress of the Union of Transactions (TUC), which forces the government to remain loyal to the labor plans, said that modeling will benefit £ 2.4 billion thanks to the productivity increases of businesses and that it will face 425 million pounds direct cost for payment for extra patient days.

Patient employees in the United Kingdom are currently entitled to obtain patient salary legally from their fourth days of illness, including weekends and days when people don’t usually work. The government’s draft employment rights, which is discussed in the House of Lords, proposes to remove the waiting by making the UK suitable for countries such as Germany and Sweden.

The legal patient salary paid by employers up to 28 weeks is worth £ 118.75 a week or 3 £ 3 per hour for people who are too sick to work. People who are paid less than £ 125 per week are not appropriate at all, ie working 1.3 million people do not have any rights. The lower limit will be removed under the recommended changes.

Business lobby groups have discussed a lot of employment rights, which were closely related to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and contain measures such as the right to work in practice against unjust dismissal from the first day of employment, and the right to work on fire and spirit practices.

The Federation of Small Enterprises, the changes in the legal patient wage, “employers will think twice about the plans to hire,” he said. It is worried that employees will be faster to obtain illness permission and that businesses will increase their costs.

Tuc’s analysis by the Consultancy WPI economy shows that the improved patient fee can benefit for businesses. Arguing, Referring to the 2018 US StudyEasily access to this patient’s salary can logically lead to the absence of general disease, because workers will be less likely to spread infectious diseases such as colds and influenza.

It also suggests that the previous patient wage can prevent patient employees from dragging the productivity of their colleagues, increasing general and retention of general morale and employees and reducing longer absenteeism. However, the recommended benefits are not subject to large -scale tests in the UK.

Tuc Secretary General Paul Nowak said, “No one should be immersed in difficulty when they get sick.

“From the first day of the disease, the workers will know that they can take the time they need to recover without the need to go back to work. This is also good for business and a wider economy. A healthier, happier labor force is a more productive labor force.”

Britain’s patient wage rate is far below generous countries, such as Sweden, which requires 80% of the salary. Tuc, Britain’s general rate should be increased, he said.