Ill Employees: Tony Clement

Tony Clement: Clement said Monday the changes will tackle the abnormally high rates of absenteeism in the federal public service and provide better help for ill employees so they can get back to work faster, according to CBC. Clement said the average worker uses 18.2 days of paid and unpaid leave per year, which is an "unsustainable" rate for any employer that wants to run a modern workforce and The federal government intends to overhaul the way public servants can take time off work for being sick in a way that will benefit them and the taxpayer, Treasury Board President Tony Clement says. "We are overhauling an archaic system that does not work for the taxpayer and doesn't work for the employee," Clement said at a news conference on Parliament Hill. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.