While we do not have the precise numbers for right across the Irish labour market as to who does and does not have paid sick leave, we know from the data on other employment rights, such as access to paid maternity leave, that the more workers earn the more likely they are to have access to paid sick leave and, of course, the converse of that, the less they earn the less likely they are to have paid sick leave. Statutory sick pay is our commitment to supporting sick workers at all times and not just in times of crisis.
He stated the agency did not pay sick pay and that the legal requirement for employers in the private sector in Ireland is that they do not have to pay sick pay. Sick pay should be, and is, about a fundamental right for all workers and yet Ireland still has no statutory sick pay policy.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 8,828 words from 17 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Senators Robbie Gallagher and Seán Kyne; Níl, Senators Ivana Bacik and Marie Sherlock.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: | Carried | 33–10 |
| Question put: | Carried | 31–12 |
Party shown is the one each member held on 2020-10-07, frozen by a dated join — not their party today. The Oireachtas API publishes no date of birth and returns an empty gender field for every member in this period, so no age or gender breakdown is shown.