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Labour Court finds employee excluded from company sick pay scheme due to level of absence has no right to Statutory Sick Pay Ibec recently represented a member company before the Labour Court in a successful appeal of an Adjudication Officer decision under the Sick Leave Act 2022. The appeal represents an important outcome for employers as it dealt with section 9 of the Act, and the extent to which the Act applies to employers who provide occupational sick pay schemes which on the whole provide greater benefits to employees than statutory sick leave. This decision provides helpful clarity on the application of section 9 of the Act, where an employer has an occupational sick leave scheme in place for employees, namely that there is no obligation on an employer to apply statutory sick leave under the Act where they have a sick leave scheme that on the whole confers greater benefits on an employee. Read about the case here: https://lnkd.in/dxNimHNY #employmentlaw #HR