Council staff two weeks on sick

baldeagle09

It is interesting to note that women up to the age of 40 take twice as much sick leave as men. After that the ratio decreases but on average in a working life women take 46% more sick leave than men

thriftyminx13

baldeagle09 wrote: »

It is interesting to note that women up to the age of 40 take twice as much sick leave as men. After that the ratio decreases but on average in a working life women take 46% more sick leave than men

where's it say that? women have to put up with more!!:p

baldeagle09

Not in the N.I.A.O report it doesn't. Try 'googling' it

baldeagle09

Also interesting to know that the average U.K. worker take 6 days sick leave per annum which is significantly down from the peak of 9.1 days in 1991.

baldeagle09

Incidentally it is extremely shoddy journalism by the BBC to indicate that council staff take two weeks sick leave per annum.
They actually take on average 13.70 days sick per annum, which assuming working a 5 day week equates to almost 2.8 weeks per employee.
Nowhere in the report does it say that employees take 2 weeks sick leave despite the BBC unequivocally saying so!

zenmaster

foxxymynx wrote: »

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.

But they weren't sick, were they?

The main reasons given for absences were stress, depression, mental health issues and fatigue

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Basically, they were having a bad day or were tired.

wifeforlife

baldeagle09 wrote: »

It is interesting to note that women up to the age of 40 take twice as much sick leave as men. After that the ratio decreases but on average in a working life women take 46% more sick leave than men

Is it because the stereotypical woman has to be a full time worker and maintain her traditional role of wife and mother fulfilling the needs of her husband and their children. Keep the house in order, whilst maintaining her own sense of self with hobbies and or her own personal choices

Feminists ruint us women!

Cate

MORPH3US

thriftyminx13 wrote: »

You're spouting rubbish.

Judging by that well thought out, reasoned, articulate and accurate response.... you must work in the public sector. :rolleyes:

MORPH3US

Parisien wrote: »

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

Oh how I miss the public sector and the "what can we find to be offended by (on someone else's behalf) today....."

(thats not a dig at you by the way)

Parisien wrote: »

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

In 12 years of employment, 3 of those in the public sector, ZERO days off sick.... (anyway thats more to do with the individual than the organisation they work for. There will be people who never have a day off even if they are at deaths door, in all sectors... Difference is SOME public sector are too soft on those that take advantage and take the p!ss because its not their money that is being wasted.

Apologies for the generalisations, you have done plenty of your own mind...;)

The public sector bails out SOME companies in the private sector using other peoples money... because "most people are employed in the public sector" then you equate that the tax payers money IS the public sectors money.... lots of taxpayers work in the private sector too. :beer:

Johnnypanic_2

If there's an issue with abuse of sick leave, then it should be the management team who look at the individual instances and take whatever action is necessary. This appears to be as much as problem with insufficent management as it does with staff abusing the system.

I'm not prepared to criticise council workers, just because the media has decided it wants to jump on a report to sensationalise it.