City employees racking up sick days
Posted Dec 31, 2011 8:54 am.
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The number of sick days taken by City of Calgary employees has sky-rocketed.
The Calgary Sun reports that last year city staff racked up over 109,000 sick days, an increase of 9 per cent from the year before.
That amounted to 21.5 million dollars of lost time.
The City has now put out tenders for a private firm to review the system, which currently only requires medical evidence for absences of more than five days in a row.
The review is expected to be finished by next fall.
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