MINISTERS must change Britain’s rigged sick-pay system, which “keeps us in work when we’re ill,” food workers demanded today.

Bakers’ union members gathered in Staffordshire for their annual conference unanimously backed a motion calling for sick pay to match 100 per cent of wages from day one of illness.

Britain’s weekly sick pay rate, currently just £116.75, is among the lowest in Europe and some workers only qualify for it after a three-day waiting period.