Federal Public Servants: Treasury Board Report

General Motors Dept: The internal Treasury Board report indicates federal public servants are staying home an average of 18 working days a year, or almost a full month off the job, according to CBC. This apparent epidemic of bureaucratic no-shows means that on an average weekday, more federal public servants are off sick than there are employees at Ford Canada and General Motors combined and a confidential government report obtained by News reveals federal workers have been booking off sick in record numbers, costing Canadian taxpayers more than $1 billion a year in lost wages alone. That is about 2 times the average rate of absenteeism in Canadian private industry, and almost twice the level of sick leave and disability claims in the rest of the public sector. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.