Statutory sick pay success


Cleaners at Riverside Quarter, a large luxury residence in Wandsworth in London, have won the London Living Wage and six weeks half pay sick pay. Alongside the 16% pay rise, it marks a significant improvement on the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) they were getting before, which was worth just £99.35 per week. 


Following success with their application for union recognition at the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) in June, the cleaners (members of the United Voices of the World union) had voted to take strike action, paving the way to the settlement. The CAC heard that five of the six workers in the union’s proposed bargaining unit, employed by Endersham Limited, were members and the union was therefore recognised.