Federal government workers are being shown to take more sick days a year than workers in the private sector.
According to an analysis of Statistics Canada by a conservative think tank, the number of lost days in one year is the equivalent of having over 5,200 federal bureaucrats calling in sick on any given weekday.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says in 2018, federal government employees took an average of just over 12 sick days per year, compared to the national private sector average of almost seven days, a difference of 77%.
