'We seem to year on year be making excuses without actually getting to the bottom of what the problems are.'
Figures show an average of 12.33 sick days per council employee [full-time equivalent] in 2021/22, increasing from 10.16 days in 2020/21.
Cllr Wallace, who asked how much absenteeism is costing the council, added: “I just feel that we seem to year on year be making excuses without actually getting to the bottom of what the problems are and what we can do to tackle it.” “In 2020/21 there was a significant decrease in absence due to lockdowns and the high numbers of employees working from home,” the report added.
Her report stated that covid absence in 20/21 was not counted as part of the sickness absence therefore “it was expected that absence would be higher in 21/22 considering the number of employees affected by Covid-19”. The official highlighted part of the report which stated absence is “consistently higher within the public sector in comparison to the private sector and has been consistently since 1995”.
The official agreed to report the cost of staff absences to a future meeting of the committee. Cllr Paul Edlin, Conservative, also said he had “concerns that the absence level at the council may be higher than we would like it to be”.
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