Richard Burgon

Richard Burgon

Labour — Leeds East

Speaking in the House of Commons on 22 April 2025

Debate

Statutory Sick Pay

Contribution

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate and on running an important campaign to increase statutory sick pay so that it is a real sick pay on which people can rely. He talks in detail about the welcome advances on sick pay made in the Government’s recent Employment Rights Bill, but does he agree that a real concern about those proposals is that 300,000 of the poorest workers could lose out? Do the Government need to look at this again?

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