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Article: Council staff's 17 days a year off ill SICKNESS ROW: Housing department comes under fire over spiralling absenteeism
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- March 15, 2007
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SICKNESS rates among city council workers are soaring, with staff
in the key housing department taking more than 17 days a year off.
Rates of absence over all the city's 55,000 staff are creeping up
and rising above the council's target of 9.5 days per year.
But the sick hotspots of city departments are housing and social
services departments.
By January this year the 1,500 housing staff were on course to
take an average of more than 17 days off sick and their colleagues in
the adults and communities department (formerly social services) were
taking more than 15 days off.
Other departments, including office staff under the chief
executive, local services and non-teaching school staff ...