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I wouldn't have thought it was anywhere this high, or am I being naive? I only know one person who takes fake sick days. I always think these things will come back to haunt you eventually, karma if you will!
 
You mean to tell me that, if this report is accurate, private sector employees in SMEs are abusing sick leave???. Well, I'm shocked, I must say. Other posts on this site led me to believe that this was purely a public sector phenomenon.:confused::rolleyes:
 
I once worked in a large company where one team of employees were unhappy with something or other. So they made out a rota and each of them took a sicky once every two weeks.
 
aonfocaleile said:
You mean to tell me that, if this report is accurate, private sector employees in SMEs are abusing sick leave???. Well, I'm shocked, I must say. Other posts on this site led me to believe that this was purely a public sector phenomenon.:confused::rolleyes:
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Just to add some balance. And [broken link removed]

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Don't stick out your tongue at me, young man:D

Its more of a case of this new ISME report adding balance to a previously one-sided debate on sick leave abuses. I await with interest the contribution of Purple;)
 
Does anyone else thinks that we should have 'personal days' as a lot of companies in the US have? Perhaps it would reduce a number of 'sick' days taken by employees.

For example, I know for a fact that a lot of my colleagues called in sick on the days they had to close on their property purchases, register intent to marry and similar stuff. Realistically, people have personal business to tend to and banks, solicitors, post office, courts, etc. all work the same hours as everyone else and I don't know anyone who doesn't spend aproximately half of their annual holiday allowance going to weddings and other mandatory family stuff other than going on holidays.

On the other hand, I know of a department where people take 'acceptable number of sick days' as an addition to their annual leave.
 
Yachtie said:
On the other hand, I know of a department where people take 'acceptable number of sick days' as an addition to their annual leave.
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Please, do me a favour Yachtie and tell Complainer all about it - I bet he'd love to hear from you. :D
 
Yachtie said:
Does anyone else thinks that we should have 'personal days' as a lot of companies in the US have? Perhaps it would reduce a number of 'sick' days taken by employees.

For example, I know for a fact that a lot of my colleagues called in sick on the days they had to close on their property purchases, register intent to marry and similar stuff. Realistically, people have personal business to tend to and banks, solicitors, post office, courts, etc.
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I've done most of the above in the last year. A couple of hours was sufficient for each. Any enlightened boss will understand, give you the couple of hours and let you make it up some other time
 
Yachtie said:
Does anyone else thinks that we should have 'personal days' as a lot of companies in the US have? Perhaps it would reduce a number of 'sick' days taken by employees.

For example, I know for a fact that a lot of my colleagues called in sick on the days they had to close on their property purchases, register intent to marry and similar stuff. Realistically, people have personal business to tend to and banks, solicitors, post office, courts, etc. all work the same hours as everyone else and I don't know anyone who doesn't spend aproximately half of their annual holiday allowance going to weddings and other mandatory family stuff other than going on holidays.

On the other hand, I know of a department where people take 'acceptable number of sick days' as an addition to their annual leave.
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I wouldn't agree with this.
Annual leave isn't exclusively for 'holidays'. Its time off from work to use as seen fit by the employee.
 
I'd like to congratulate all the SME business owners who presumably have qualified as occupational GPs in their spare time. They must have picked up the additional skill of time-travel, as they are able to assess whether the employee who returns to work today was genuinely sick yesterday.
 
Complainer said:
I'd like to congratulate all the SME business owners who presumably have qualified as occupational GPs in their spare time. They must have picked up the additional skill of time-travel, as they are able to assess whether the employee who returns to work today was genuinely sick yesterday.
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You don’t have to be a doctor to know that if someone says that have the flu on Monday but is back in work on Wednesday exhibiting no symptoms they were, at the very least, exaggerating their ailment.
You also don’t have to be a doctor to know that an absent employee is probably lying when they say this their absence is the result of a cold when they were out on Thursday night with their workmates (sorry, “workmates” is not allowed anymore, its “colleagues” now) and were put into a taxi at 3am blind drunk.
 
It really doesn't much for the ability of SME owners to lead, motivate, select, retain and manage staff if they reckon that 80% of sick days are fraudulent! So much for the super-effective and super-efficient private sector, eh?
 
Purple, Were you contributing to RTE's Drive Time, a few days ago, on this very topic?
 
Purple said:
You don’t have to be a doctor to know that if someone says that have the flu on Monday but is back in work on Wednesday exhibiting no symptoms they were, at the very least, exaggerating their ailment.
You also don’t have to be a doctor to know that an absent employee is probably lying when they say this their absence is the result of a cold when they were out on Thursday night with their workmates (sorry, “workmates” is not allowed anymore, its “colleagues” now) and were put into a taxi at 3am blind drunk.
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Perhaps "outofworkmates" would be more appropriate after too many of these?;)
 
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