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Statutory Sick Pay Entitlements Granted to Fixed Term Employees
Under the Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 statutory sick pay entitlements are to be extended to certain agency workers.
Under the previous rules employees working on fixed term contracts who were employed through an agency did not receive the same terms of statutory sick pay as other workers. However, as of 27th October 2008, agency workers on contracts of less than three months will be entitled to receive statutory sick pay during periods of sickness absence
