Sickness Shame for Workers in Scots Councils

Evening Times (January 16, 2004)

Author: Gerry Braiden

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SCOTLAND'S council workers are taking an average of more than twice as many days off sick as private sector staff.

New figures out today reveal the average sickness level is 12 days - or nearly two-and-a-half weeks - a year, though some areas are much worse than this.

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Sickness Shame for Workers in Scots Councils

That compares with an average in the private sector of only 5.7 days a year.

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