Labour Court Provides Useful Decision on Employer Sick Pay Schemes
The Labour Court recently upheld a decision of the Workplace Relations Commission finding that the Respondent’s sick pay scheme was not more favourable as a whole than the statutory sick pay scheme.
While it is open to Organisations to assert that a more favourable company sick pay scheme exempts them from the requirement to provide statutory sick pay, this decision underlines the need to carefully examine existing policies to determine whether they are genuinely more favourable than the statutory entitlement.
This Labour Court ruling is also useful as it provides clear guidance as to how Organisations can compare the overall favourability of a company scheme against the non-applicability criteria under Section 9(2) of the Sick Leave Act 2022.
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