AQW 3141/17-22

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 04/03/2020
Answered On Date: 12/01/2021
Priority Written: Yes

Question:
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether she intends to mirror changes in employment legislation in the rest of the UK, in response to COVID-19, to allow for the payment of Statutory Sick Pay from the first day of illness.

Answer:

This is not within my Department’s remit.

The legislation underpinning statutory sick pay is not regarded as employment legislation but as social security legislation and is therefore within the remit of Department for Communities.