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January 27, 2012

Windsor-Essex school board, union at odds over absenteeism

Days like "Black Friday" cost schoolboards like the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board a lot of money as staff choose to call in sick and take personal days.

Black Friday costs the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board big money. On the day in November when U.S. shopping malls offer crazy bargains the board had 133 of its employees off work — 48 claimed a personal day; the rest called in sick.

Teachers, janitors, secretaries call in sick in unusual numbers on Mondays, Fridays, before a long weekend, before March break and around American Thanksgiving, according to Jamie Bumbacco, the Windsor-Essex board’s executive superintendent of human resources.

Published in Education