AQW 3141/17-22 Written question to the Minister for the Economy
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.
Asked by Stewart Dickson MLA on 4 March 2020
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Priority
- Tabled
- 4 March 2020
- Answer due by
- 9 March 2020
- Answered
- 12 January 2021314 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for the Economy
- Priority question
- Yes
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.