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The government's proposed sick pay changes could leave millions of hard-working people out of pocket when they fall ill

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Zoe Grunewald and The Lead
Feb 01, 2025
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Many people often try and ‘struggle on’ to work despite being ill due to low sickness pay rates Pic: Posed by The Lead

We’ve said it before at The Lead and we’ll say it again: Labour’s worker’s rights reforms will change millions of lives.

But as a staunch believer that the media’s role is to highlight broken things and propose solutions to fix them, we …

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