Toronto Silly Hall
If you live in Toronto, you must have heard recently that more than half of city workers can get six months of paid sick leave each year.
If you live in Toronto, you must have heard recently that more than half of city workers can get six months of paid sick leave each year.
Say what? Let me repeat that. More than half of the city’s unionized workers are entitled to have 130 days (there are roughly 240 working days in a year) of sick leave each year! For guys that have been with the city for more than 10 years, they get 100% of their pay for those sick days while those with less, get 75% to 100% based on a sliding scale.
Do city workers really need that? Apparently, so. They are so sick and unwell in our land of free health care, that as revealed by the Toronto Sun, city employee absenteeism cost taxpayers $104 million last year, up $3 million more from 2014.
The Sun also reported that there are 1,285 city employees (1 in 20 of all city employees) on the long-term disability (LTD) benefit that comes into effect after those 130 days.
Crikey. What a sweet deal!
There is no need to wonder why the City of Toronto is in financial trouble with financial management like this. They just signed the deals earlier this year.
It makes my stomach turn. Oh, geez, I am feeling sick now myself.
I need a sick day! But I am self-employed and have to go to work otherwise, I can’t feed my family or pay those lovely taxes that support all those workers.
It makes me wonder, though, if I can con – no, poor choice of words – negotiate with the City into paying me somehow – a self-employed health tax benefit, perhaps?
Any entrepreneurs out there willing to support me on this?
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