- A Institutional Context Statutory sick pay (SSP) is available in the UK. However, not all workers are eligible and its generosity is very low. To qualify for SSP to qualify for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) employees must:16 • have an employment contract (this disqualifies workers on casual and zero-hours contracts) • have done some work under their contract • have been sick for 4 or more days in a row • earn an average of at least 120 per week In practise, this means that over 2 million workers do not have access to statutory sick pay in the UK (Brewer and Gustafsson 2020).
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