Statutory Sick Pay: Agency Workers
Commons · Question 100301 · Tabled 16 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 31 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support employment businesses in verifying Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) eligibility in circumstances where agency workers may be registered at multiple agencies and claim SSP from
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 31 Dec 2025
Currently, agency workers can sign up to work for multiple agencies and, once they have done some work under that contract, are eligible to receive Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) from each individual employer during periods of sickness absence. This will not ch...