All workers to receive sick pay rights
Sick pay rights are to be given to all workers from next year.
Under proposals being brought to Cabinet by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar this morning, employers would have to guarantee a minimum number of paid sick days from 2022.
It's estimated half of workers may not have access to company sick pay at present.
Laura Bambrick, Head of Social Policy & Employment Affairs at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is welcoming the news.
"Ireland is one of a small handful of wealthy countries where workers had Eno right to paid sick leave from their employer, and employers have no responsibility to their sick workers.
"In Ireland employers have no responsibility to their sick workers.
"Sick pay is treated as a perk of the job that employers can decide whether or not to include in the worker's contract of employment - and that's about to change."
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