Saving £1Bn

According to a report from the CBI (reported here on BBC Online) working days lost through sickness absence are at their lowest level in 20 years. The report notes that in general absence through sickness is dropping. Whilst workers in the Private Sector take on average 6.7 days per year, those in the Public Sector take 8.5 days. It goes on to report:

If the public sector could reduce its absentee levels to that of the private sector then £1bn of taxpayers' money would be saved, the report claims.

GF knows of some parts of the Public Sector that sees nearly 30% absenteeism, and is eager to save the tax-payer money.

Some other ways of saving the tax-payer money:

• Change the year end farce where extra money is made available and everyone tries to spend it, whether they have any genuine need or not. GF has seen it himself, and Urban-cub reports that in her place of work the head of the stores department did the rounds in January asking everone what they would like as they had a huge surplus to spend.
• Allow budget surplus to be carried forward to the following year
• Cut unnecessary attendance at pointless meetings
• Ignore statements from ill-informed Ministers
• Get rid of huge departments of paper-shufflers and demand online filing
• Get rid of the current government
• Stop paying healthy people who are not working after 13 weeks
• Stop rewarding teenage pregnancy by giving the mothers the keys to a house.
  Urban-cub reports of a a trend amongst young girls for 4 by 4s... that is 4 children by 4 fathers. This, they reckon, works out financially perfect with the investment spread between the state and 4 separate men, thus protecting against changes in the economy.
• Require Public Sector workers to work until the normal state retirement age

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