Posted on 12/30/2013 10:14:19 AM PST by Olog-hai
EU officials are off sick three times more than the average British worker, it was revealed last night.
According to official figures, European Commission officials took an average of 14.6 days off sick last year—triple the amount taken by British workers in the private sector. One in seven staff were absent from more than 20 days.
In contrast, a survey by the Confederation of British Industry found British staff working in the private sector took around five sick days a year. The figures also showed European officials even outstripped Britain’s civil servants and public sector staff—who took half as many days off work.
Peter Bone, a prominent Euroskeptic Conservative MP, told the Telegraph the figures were “disgraceful”. …
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And that, FRiends, is “austerity” for the people at the top of the European Union.EU penpushers take THREE TIMES the sick days of British workers: Figures show officials took an average of 14.6 days off sick last year
British workers are the ones who pay for those sick days probably
I worked for a public company for 10 years. I had one sick day, and that was only by mistake. It took longer to recover from having 4 wisdom teeth pulled than expected.
Hey. Why should anyone have to work to get paid? There is a magic machine that “the rich” people have that generates all the money anyone could want and if the “rich” would just pay their “fair share,” we all could take two weeks sick time and four weeks vacation and a couple extra weeks of pesonal days and holidays.
In 1945 we SHOULD have dropped A-Bomb on BOTH France AND Germany!
Government bureaucrats should take EVERY day off!
. . . without pay.
(I don’t even want to think about what they have to do to ensure compliance in the lucrative sex industry.)
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