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All employees will have 10 paid sick days a year from 2025

Employers will have to make the new payment at 70% of their workers wage at the time.

Wed, 09 Jun, 2021 - 13:44

Daniel McConnell, Political Editor

The Cabinet has approved a new law which will see paid sick pay introduced for all workers from next year.

Announced by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar after the meeting, the Government’s statutory sick pay scheme will be phased in over a four-year period, starting with three days per year in 2022, rising to five days payable in 2023 and seven days payable in 2024.

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