THE government has scrapped proposals to overhaul statutory sick pay which would have forced employers to provide benefits to staff from the first day of absence.
Plans to simplify the complex rules on sick pay formed a fundamental part of a Green Paper of welfare reform, but work and pensions secretary John Hutton said change was abandoned because ministers...
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