Council staff two weeks on sick

Parisien

MORPH3US wrote: »

This is an absolute joke.... the public sector is well known to be a soft touch....

And in the private sector, when they !!!! up, over spend, misuse funds/loans/mortgages, what happens?

Yup, the public sector picks up all the pieces, to sort out the endless private sector messes.....ring a bell...aka current financial mess, banks bought out, big business shown up for what it was...the private sector at its best???!!!!

Sure theres too much "sick leave"( invariably taken by a hardcore of staff, a significant proportion by those who've finished maternity leave)...but when you consider the excesses of the private sector its nothing!

Get off your sanctumonius high horse board...and live a little.....:eek:

thriftyminx13

It's unfair when they say the average is 2 weeks sick leave. You can't rely on statistics etc. say 25 people worked in a council and one person was off for a year with a serious illness despite the fact they may have gone to half-pay after 6 months, then they will have been off 52 weeks, then the average would be 2 weeks for the whole 25 people.

so it's unfair to use statistics in this way. they should break down what areas the sick leave is taken, the circumstances and try to find a way to prevent it.

thriftyminx13

and also aren't you allowed 2 episodes of sickness of 5 days which equals 10 working days which equals 2 weeks. therefore i don't think thats too excessive.

tomstickland

Some people regard sick days as extra holiday.

bribrian

Pythagorous wrote: »

Apparently Larne averages more than 4 weeks of sickies per annum per employee.

Larne council clearly has major management/employee issues, there's been a huge rise in workers off with stress etc since the new female chief exec took over...............

MORPH3US

Parisien wrote: »

And in the private sector, when they !!!! up, over spend, misuse funds/loans/mortgages, what happens?

Yup, the public sector picks up all the pieces, to sort out the endless private sector messes.....ring a bell...aka current financial mess,
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Get off your sanctumonius high horse board...and live a little.....:eek:

Err you might want to think before you post.... its a bit of a (stupid) generalisation to say that "the private sector" !!!! it up...... how many private companies are there in the UK and because a few ask for a handout, they are all bad :cool:

Oh and it wasn't the public sector that picked up the pieces, it was the tax payer.......

Think i'll stay up here on my sanctimonious high horse for now, it can take me back to your ivory tower

Oh and I have worked in public and private sector by the way. Organisations in the public sector aren't in the real world. The people working in public sector tend to stay in the public sector because they can get overpaid for doing buggar all with their cushy holidays and pensions.... :rolleyes:

thriftyminx13

MORPH3US wrote: »

Oh and I have worked in public and private sector by the way. Organisations in the public sector aren't in the real world. The people working in public sector tend to stay in the public sector because they can get overpaid for doing buggar all with their cushy holidays and pensions.... :rolleyes:

You're spouting rubbish.

Parisien

MORPH3US wrote: »

Err you might want to think before you post.... its a bit of a (stupid) generalisation to say that "the private sector" !!!! it up...... how many private companies are there in the UK and because a few ask for a handout, they are all bad :cool:

Oh and it wasn't the public sector that picked up the pieces, it was the tax payer.......

Think i'll stay up here on my sanctimonious high horse for now, it can take me back to your ivory tower

Oh and I have worked in public and private sector by the way. Organisations in the public sector aren't in the real world. The people working in public sector tend to stay in the public sector because they can get overpaid for doing buggar all with their cushy holidays and pensions.... :rolleyes:

God...uve used the stupid word...oooppsss......private sector covers a range of money making activities....so many "private" firms..only exist because of public sector contracts, it just so happens that the private sector has been bailed out over and over again down the centuries....and given that more people are employed in the public sector....of course its correct to say the public sector bails out the private sector.....because WE are the taxpayer!!!!!!!!

PS Ivory towers are non-pc now........;)

The only reason the pensions are goodish are because private sector firms usually plundered their own workers pension funds...same old...same old....:rotfl:

In 26 years of work in the health service I've taken approx 3 weeks sick leave........so please don't generalise......or pontificate.....:D

foxxymynx

Does anyone think that these people could have been genuinely sick?!

It's an average, so for example if there were 50 people, one person has an injury and is off sick for 8 weeks, another has a kidney stone and is off work for 6 weeks, someone else has a stomach ulcer and is off work for 2 weeks, 3 people have food poisoning and are off work for 1 week each and someone else has flu for a week (food poisoning and flu you're supposed to stay off work for 2 days after you're better, as you're still contageous and you'll spread it around), that's only 7 people, only 14% of the workforce took any time off sick, all for unavoidable reasons.

wifeforlife

thriftyminx13 wrote: »

and also aren't you allowed 2 episodes of sickness of 5 days which equals 10 working days which equals 2 weeks. therefore i don't think thats too excessive.

I dont know about council workers but Northern Ireland Civil Servants have 4 seperate counts of sickness or 1 length of sickness of 10 days or more in a rolling year, anything at this stage or more hits a target which then starts personnel on the phone to the staff members manager and now warnings, I found they have become very on the ball with this

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