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    "name": "Statutory Sick Pay: daily rate by qualifying days in the week",
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        "text": "The Statutory Sick Pay payable for ONE qualifying day at the flat weekly rate, being that rate divided by the number of days which are qualifying days in the week (beginning with Sunday) in which the day falls, as Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 s.157(3) directs. The key is that number of qualifying days, 1 to 7; no document publishes the resulting table, which is why it is a derivation from the weekly rate and recomputed by the build, once per entry.",
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      "note": "Fixed by the qualifying day of incapacity: the weekly rate in force on that day is the one divided (s.157(3)), and the divisor is the number of qualifying days in the week beginning with the Sunday in which that day falls — so the rate steps every April with the up-rating Order while the divisor is a matter of the employer's and employee's own agreement.",
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    "notes": "Section 157 fixes no rounding — the archived section text contains no “round”, no “penny” and no “pence” — so the quotient is published to 4 decimal places, the precision this record declares, and the amount actually payable for a day is a matter for the employer's payroll rounding, which the statute leaves unstated. This is our calculation from the statutory rule, not a table any authority publishes: no GOV.UK page carries it, so there is no B side and the single limb is cited as legislation. Owner decision D14, 2026-07-29: publish the calculation, labelled.",
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        4,
        5,
        6,
        7
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