Both employers and employees should be aware that from From 1 January 2023, the entitlement is 3 days paid sick leave and this will increase to 5 days from 1 January 2024. It is proposed that the entitlement will increase to 7 days for 2025 and to 10 days for 2026.
Employees are entitled to a rate of 70% of their usual daily earnings up to a maximum of €110 a day for certified leave only.
Employees must have completed 13 weeks’ continuous service with the employer before availing of statutory sick leave. The employee must provide their employer with a medical certificate from a registered medical practitioner and the certificate must state that the employee named is unfit to work due to their illness or injury.
The entitlement is triggered by the employee’s first statutory sick leave day. The leave must be in relation to a day or days when an employee would ordinarily work but is incapable of doing so due to illness or injury. The leave can be taken on consecutive or non-consecutive days.
Further information can be accessed at the following very useful summary from the #workplacerelationscommission https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/leave/sick-leave/sick-leave.html
