A new analysis by a conservative think tank, finds federal employees are taking more sick days from work than the general population.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation broke down the numbers from Statistics Canada to discover in 2018, federal government employees took an average of 12.2 sick days per year, compared to the national private sector average of almost 6.9 days, a difference of 77 percent.
The federation points out the federal government alone has over 260,000 people on its payroll.
When they multiplied that by the gap between government and private sector sick days, and it worked out to a 1.37 million lost days of work in just one year which the federation claims is the equivalent of having over 5,200 federal bureaucrats calling in sick on any given weekday.
