Labour's latest crusade against sick-note Britain has been undermined by the revelation that civil servants at the Ministry charged with getting people back to work took more than a million days off sick last year.
Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell unveiled a clampdown on the workshy last week with tough-sounding welfare reform plans, including abolishing incapacity benefit and retesting the 2.7million existing recipients to see if they are genuinely unfit to work.
But official figures show that sickies cost his own Department for Work and Pensions £65.8million in 2007-2008 – bringing the total cost to the public purse in the past three years to £228million, although officials point out that it fell last year from £77.4million in 2006-2007 and £84.6million in 2005-2006.
The cost is calculated from the actual salaries of people who took sick days.
The figures show that on average each of the DWP’s 114,000 staff took 10.1 sick days a year, nearly double the private-sector average of 5.8 days.
**Workshy bastards, the worst people to get workshy people back to work. Sack the fuckers and claw back the days pay that they spent
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The labour government has gotten to the point where they cannot announce anything without it getting shot to pieces in minutes. The only thing left for them to do that probably won't attract any criticism will be to simply resign. Don't say much, don't make any more excuses, no more lies, no more spin, no long speeches, just leave.
Agreed, but they should then kill themselves after leaving.
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