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four weeks of dirty nappies anyone? Hmmm, I'm not jumping up and down in that bin...
Ernie, I will trust the first hand reports of relatives I trust if thats ok.
Thanks for your link. This:
The average number of days absence per employee in small private businesses is 4 days, compared with 7 days in large (250+) private sector organisations.
Puts 30 days into context (including the skiving supervisors and managers that make up this stat).
Ernie, I will trust the first hand reports of relatives I trust if thats ok.
Yes, that's fine by me....just ignore the facts if you prefer.
And yes, that link does indeed into put into context your gossip/rumour fuelled baseless claim.
Ernie, I am not ignoring the facts.
This document:
Also from the HSE says that absence rates are high and that in many civil service jobs odd day absence may not even have been reported.
The link you provided does not make my claim baseless. It does highlight that typical absence days are 7 per worker per year. You can make the mental leap to think why anyone would take 30 per year (If it were Riddors then it would be scandalous neglect by the employer).
Now, given the link to the PDF I have posted is 5 years old, and talks of 10 days per worker, it is possible that this has been cracked down on to bring it down to 7? The report does talk of a 30% improvement being targeted. In which case maybe my family members are still coloured by what happened two or three years ago. But certainly this was VERY real for my relatives, who had worked in public and private sector before and were taken aback by the difference in attitude.
I think the point about poor senior management being responsible for high sickness rates is pertinant based on my observations.
Work in a busy community health/social care team and we have a number of senior workers on long term sick due to stress.
I feel that this is due in the main, to stress imposed from above, cost cutting and unrealistic targets.
Fortunately I have chosen to stay a level or two lower so I can go home and forget (well, I try) about work.
I have had 6 sick days in the past 2 years, 5 of them after a bike crash!!!! but I reckon our average would be over 30 days due to the long termers.
Difference between public and private sector sick could likely be due to private sector getting rid of anyone who develops a long term condition.
Look at the guy on here with cancer (Petesgaff), work for a public sector body and he'll be pretty well looked after. If he worked for my last private employer they would have sacked him off and defended their decision if he challenged it legally.
Any update on this? I put the bins out again yesterday, in hope, but to no avail. It's been a while now! I'm in Otley.