The Sick Leave Act 2022 provides for a Statutory Sick Leave scheme for all employees who have been with their current employer for at least 13 weeks.

From 1 January 2024 the number of Statutory Sick Leave days will increase from 3 to 5. This means you will be paid by your employer under the Statutory Sick Leave scheme for any instance of illness, up to a maximum of 5 days, that you are ordinarily scheduled to work in a calendar year. If your first instance of illness in the year is less than 5 days, your remaining statutory sick leave days will be applied to any subsequent instance(s) of illness, up to a maximum of 5 days in a calendar year.

Once your Statutory Sick Leave days have been exhausted you may be eligible for Illness Benefit from the Department of Social Protection.

Please see link below for more information:

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/8c924-illness-benefit-and-statutory-sick-leave-in-2024/