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Re: Media "myths" that get on your nerves

liaconn said:
I think maybe a breakaway thread should be set up entitled 'Public Sector sick leave'.

To go slightly back on point, I think the media will often extract juicy headlines from reports without providing any proper analysis. For instance, I know very few Public Servants who take an average of 16 sick days a year. I do, however, know of a small number of lazy, dishonest parasites who take far, far more than that every year. Therefore, the 'average' Public Servant is not taking 16 days sick leave annually, but 'a very small number' of Public Servants are taking vastly excessive amounts of sick days per annum.

Likewise, there are some very unscrupulous employers in the Private Sector who totally ignore their employees rights, treat migrant workers like dirt and bully vulnerable workers. In these cases the employees would not dare take sick leave unless they were at death's door. They are not 'average' private sector employees but they are skewing the figure downwards.

The use of the word 'average' is often used by the media to perpetuate myths.
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If a private sector business treats staff badly it is answerable before tribunals, the LRC/Labour Court and the civil courts. Also, if employees in these businesses abuse sick leave and/or other entitlements, they will negatively impact the competitiveness of the business, which will generally lead to profit decline, which in turn leads to rationalisation, and ultimately job losses. So, even in businesses where nut-job union reps are at large, the market will eventually act to correct abuses.
However, in the PS there is no such correction factor - thus leaving management, employees and unions complete freedom to abuse entitlements/regulations, over-charge for services, under-deliver, militate, strike,mismanage etc etc.....By the way, this PS problem isnt a new issue, its decades old.
In summary, the Private Sector 'does or die', while the PS 'doesn't and lives'.....sick really....
 
Protocol said:
Why not give an annual bonus to any worker with no or very low sick leave?
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PS workers get generous holidays, their bonus is the cheque that gets lodged to their account every month.

I don't agree with with bonuses in the PS/CS - never have.
 
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