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Sick note politicians

  • 20-01-2011 10:50am
    #1
    Shelflife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭


    Just noted that the vast majority of the retirees are citing health issues and scares. just got me thinking that while these people were off sick did they recieve their full wages or did they have to claim benefit?

    now i know that they were paid but it would be a lesson to them to see how they would cope on €188 p/w like the rest of us. just another feather in the nest for our elite politicians.


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  • #2
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    Shelflife wrote: »
    Just noted that the vast majority of the retirees are citing health issues and scares. just got me thinking that while these people were off sick did they recieve their full wages or did they have to claim benefit?

    now i know that they were paid but it would be a lesson to them to see how they would cope on €188 p/w like the rest of us. just another feather in the nest for our elite politicians.


    Sick leave is not unemployment. Anyone on sick leave is generally paid the same as if they were in work which is fair in most cases. Politicians should be treated just like anyone else in this regard and receive their salary if they are too sick to work, just like "the rest of us".


  • #3
    Shelflife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Shelflife


    RichardAnd wrote: »
    Sick leave is not unemployment. Anyone on sick leave is generally paid the same as if they were in work which is fair in most cases. Politicians should be treated just like anyone else in this regard and receive their salary if they are too sick to work, just like "the rest of us".[/QUOTE

    Most people in the service industry do not get paid sick pay, if you dont work you simply dont get paid.


  • #4
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    Shelflife wrote: »
    Most people in the service industry do not get paid sick pay, if you dont work you simply dont get paid.


    I know some jobs don't give sick leave which is why I put "the rest of us" in quotes. However, a politician is quite a high level job so it's only natural to expect that it would come with benefits that a service level job would not.


  • #5
    Atilathehun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Atilathehun


    RichardAnd wrote: »
    I know some jobs don't give sick leave which is why I put "the rest of us" in quotes. However, a politician is quite a high level job so it's only natural to expect that it would come with benefits that a service level job would not.

    And there was I believing our politicians, when the say the serve the people. That in my book is service industry. Min wage would be good enough. Tips to be given strictly in brown paper bags.

    Sick note here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Vfxuk8x_A


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