The average days of sick leave taken by public sector employees is 3.6 days annually, compared to 2.6 days taken by private sector worker, head of civil service Mario Cutajar said.
In a press conference at the Excelsior hotel in Floriana, Cutajar said that the common perception that public sector employees take triple the amount of sick leave is leave is simply not true.
Cutajar was addressing a colloquium for unions to discuss ongoing industrial and employee relations within the public sector.
Responding to media questions, Cutajar said that the majority of public sector employees do not work half days in summer and that he still believed that those who do should continue to benefit from this measure.
Cutajar said that one public sector department will immediately begin opening earlier and closing later in a pilot project aimed to make
The principal permanent secretary said statistics showed that most sick leave days were taken in the October-January period. Industrial employees take the most number of sick leave days, with workers in professional levels taking less.
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