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After
reading the Social Work committee reports month-in, month-out that staff sickness
was averaging 4%, it didn’t take long to realise that this epidemic of sickness
was costing the South Lanarkshire Council tax payer, around £4m per year, £1m
for every 1% sickness. If you multiply
this across the council, the numbers would scare you to death! When
working with the social work directors, I quickly understood that council
management were doing all within their powers to reduce sickness and took the
epidemic very seriously. This meant even more of your council tax was been
spent on management time, private doctors and the list goes on and on! Clearly there
are genuine cases and sadly a large number of council staff are off sick due
to serious illnesses and I truly feel for these council employees. Unfortunately
there are still those who just take days off sick for the most minor
conditions and I find this irresponsible and needs to be stopped ASAP so the
money can be saved and redirected into improving front line services even
more. I have to
report that very few councillors take this epidemic seriously and prefer to
hide from the problem because of the unions and the strong-hold they have on
the council. My
project is to uncover this epidemic enough and target a reduction to around
2%. Imagine if every council in |
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