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Proportion of UK worker’s salary covered is typically less than quarter of Germany’s 100% in first six weeks
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Strange to relate, but whilst the Prime Minister wants UK workers to be more 'German' in terms of staying away from work when infected with the coronavirus, he's also keen to overlook that the thing that's most likely to incentivise this - the rate of sick pay - in much more generous there.
Indeed, whereas German workers get paid 100% of their income for the first six weeks of their illness, with the payments kicking in from day one, UK workers can expect to get around 19% of their income, and in the next month that's going to revert to pre-pandemic norms and only be payable from day four. We're all in this together - apart from when we aren't...