According to a study, sick leave has reached a record level in the United Kingdom in fifteen years, much higher than before the pandemic.
Employees in the country were absent on average 7.8 days last year for health reasons, two days more than before the pandemic, according to this study by the human resources sector association CIPD and the medical services company Simplyhealth, which serves 6.5 million employees in 918 organizations. .
And this trend continues this year to the point of revolutionizing certain sectors such as aviation. In fact, we have learned that London-Gatwick Airport decided to cancel more than 160 flights until Sunday due to a shortage of air traffic controllers, most of whom are on sick leave.
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A threshold of 800 daily flights (departures and arrivals) has been set to “avoid last-minute cancellations and delays to passengers while NATS (British Air Traffic Control, editor’s note) resolves issues related to sick leave and staffing limitations,” explains London Airport
Around 30% of the platform’s air traffic controllers are currently not available “for various medical reasons, including Covid,” explains the manager.
At the beginning of 2023, 2.6 million Britons of working age (6.1% of the total) were out of the workforce for health reasons, becoming the largest contingent of the economically inactive population for the first time, it also reported. the public budgetary body OBR. this summer.
Source: BFM TV
