Jim Board, UNISON Branch Secretary, defends Doncaster Council's sickness record on Calendar News as genuine, due to the high levels of stress in the authority.
http://www.itv.com/yorkshire/cost-of-council-sickies31837/
UNSION are aware the council want to renegotiate the council's sickness policy with a view to not paying sickness pay on the first days of absence, reducing the right to six months full pay and six months half pays.
UNISON calls on Doncaster council to properly resource under funded and over worked areas of the council to ensure staff sickness improves, rather than taking punitive measures against staff who are genuinely ill. Many areas of the council have had cuts over recent years, which leave just a skeleton workforce providing the bare minimum of a service with a heavy reliance on relief and agency staff, something that ultimately is more costly to the services we provide and to the health of our members
Jim also did an interview for BBC Radio Sheffield about the cuts, listen to it here from 45.00 mins in.
.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p009cgn4/The_Toby_Foster_Bigger_at_Breakfast_Show_19_08_2010/
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