EXPLANATORY NOTE
These regulations amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982—
so that—
(a) in calculating the entitlement limit to statutory sick pay (which is fixed by sections 5(4) and 7 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 at 8 times the appropriate weekly rate) in a case where the weekly rate has changed, the multiplier to be applied to either the old rate or the new rate is to be rounded up to the next thousandth, instead of being calculated to the nearest hundredth as previously provided; and
(b) in fixing a time limit for an employee to give notice of incapacity for work an employer is precluded from requiring the employee to give notice before the first qualifying day in the relevant period of incapacity for work or by a specified time on that day but may require the notice to be given during the first qualifying day without a time being specified.