Daily Mirror, on UK Politics, 13 November 2026
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Read the original article on mirror.co.uk (opens in a new tab)The Mirror reports the new statutory sick pay rates for 2027 to 2028 and sets out the Employment Rights Act changes already in force, including day-one sick pay and new trade union access rules. The figures are given with their periods, the employer survey is given with its base, and the Acas chair's view is quoted and attributed. Nothing in the article misleads its reader.
“Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is the legal minimum that employers across the UK are obliged to pay eligible staff who are absent from work due to illness.”
The article tells the reader plainly what statutory sick pay is and who pays it before going into the rate change.
“A survey of over 1,000 employers regarding the Employment Rights Act revealed that one in three cited paying statutory sick pay from the first day of illness as the most challenging measure”
The article gives the survey's base and the share behind the employers' concern, so a reader can weigh it rather than take a vague 'businesses warn' line.
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