HSE employee sick for 6 years receiving €216,667 p/a

unkel · 27-10-2009 02:22PM #1

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/euro11m-paid-to-hse-staff-on-longterm-sick-leave-1925608.html

Fine Gael is calling on the Minister for Health to make a full statement on the extent of long-term sick leave in the HSE.

The call follows the release of figures showing that more than €11m has been paid to 147 existing employees who have been on sick leave for more than six months.

One of these employees has been on leave since 2003 and has received more than €1.3m in that period.

Another has been on leave for the past 13 years and has received almost €300,000 in pay during that period.

Eight million euros of the total figure for sick leave is going to just 41 workers who have been on paid leave since 2007 or earlier.

Fine Gael health spokesperson Dr James Reilly says the situation raises questions about why frontline services are being cut back when large sums of money are still being wasted in the health service.

In my experience the private sector norm for sick pay is 2 days in a row. Not 6 years :rolleyes:

What's next? Someone working in the civil service for a year and getting 20 extra years pension entitlements? Oh, wait :mad:

Gone Drinking · 27-10-2009 02:25PM

Leave it out, i had the man flu..

Gummy Panda · 27-10-2009 02:28PM

AFAIK, under irish labour law the HSE would well be in their rights to terminate those individuals employment.

I know private sector employers usually put down the maximum amount of sick pay they will pay in a 12 month period, in the person's contract.

aidan_walsh · 27-10-2009 02:29PM

Loving the ad beside the story.

genericguy · 27-10-2009 02:31PM

that's ridiculous, tom hanks got sacked the second his bosses found out he had AIDS.

Dean820 · 27-10-2009 02:45PM

1.3 million could build a school.

connundrum · 27-10-2009 02:46PM

Dean820 wrote: »

1.3 million could build a school.

An ant school.

Dord · 27-10-2009 03:00PM

Sickening. It just disgusts me.

Dyr · 27-10-2009 03:03PM

wonder if anyone noticed that they were gone..

My name is URL · 27-10-2009 03:19PM

Well for all anyone knows they were injured at work and are perfectly entitled to sick pay

*ducks

SEPT 23 1989 · 27-10-2009 03:25PM

but do these people really exsist or is it just more fraud/corruption

Agricola · 27-10-2009 03:25PM

According to the Independent, theres someone there on leave since '97 - now moving into their 14th year of paid absence! I want that job!

Kingmaker · 27-10-2009 03:26PM

Employers are not obliged to provide sick pay- most will terminate any pay after a year.
This stuff makes me sick- the civil service is a joke- if you ever meet civil servants they always tell you that they are not all like that- yet recent revelations wold suggest that most of them are. If none of them are abusing the system then it must be the rest of us in the private sector that are making up all these statistics etc.
They should be ashamed of themselves for bleeding this country dry- theives, one and all.

Morlar · 27-10-2009 03:28PM

This reminds me of the story of the actor Bob Hoskins being hired for a spielberg movie, Spielberg decided to use someone else in the end but paid hoskins his full salary as contracts had been signed.

Hoskins responded by saying to spielberg 'If there are any more films you don't want me to be in, then let me know'.

Seriously though if the HSE have any more jobs they don't want me to do they should get in touch.

Overheal · 27-10-2009 03:30PM

I really do hope more US Senators are paying attention to this crap before voting on Govercare

The Monkey Pump · 27-10-2009 03:32PM

None of our TD's have worked since 1937 - why the outcry now?

Keano · 27-10-2009 03:33PM

I feel sick reading that.

/gets coat.

Zzippy · 27-10-2009 03:38PM

Kingmaker wrote: »

Employers are not obliged to provide sick pay- most will terminate any pay after a year.
This stuff makes me sick- the civil service is a joke- if you ever meet civil servants they always tell you that they are not all like that- yet recent revelations wold suggest that most of them are. If none of them are abusing the system then it must be the rest of us in the private sector that are making up all these statistics etc.
They should be ashamed of themselves for bleeding this country dry- theives, one and all.

Generalise much? :rolleyes:

Overheal wrote: »

I really do hope more US Senators are paying attention to this crap before voting on Govercare

What has the abuse of sick leave regulations got to do with healthcare for poor people?

akaredtop · 27-10-2009 03:39PM

The revelations which are coming out on a daily basis just show what a rotten Public Service we have.

hopalong85 · 27-10-2009 03:51PM

Madness? No, this is Ireland!

Pretty ridiculous tbh, yet another horrible bit of information comes to light.

Morlar · 27-10-2009 03:52PM

Zzippy wrote: »

What has the abuse of sick leave regulations got to do with healthcare for poor people? :confused

Maybe it is the fear that some Americans have of ending up with a massive, public funded, unaccountable, 'not fit for purpose', inefficient bureaucracy to take care of their health care (such as the one exemplified by this 'sick leave regulations abuse' story) ?

mathie · 27-10-2009 03:52PM

Mooooooooooooo!
I mean Booooooooooooo!

Who are we mad at today?

Morlar · 27-10-2009 03:54PM

mathie wrote: »

Who are we mad at today?

Pretty much the usual. Should we be happy with them instead ? That would be nice for a change.

dearg lady · 27-10-2009 04:06PM

unkel wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/euro11m-paid-to-hse-staff-on-longterm-sick-leave-1925608.html

This is pretty bloody shocking, I have to agree. I wonder though, some people pay extra into an income continuance plan but I still thought even that would run out after a year.

unkel wrote: »

What's next? Someone working in the civil service for a year and getting 20 extra years pension entitlements? Oh, wait :mad:

what ya talkin bout here tho??

mathie · 27-10-2009 04:27PM

Morlar wrote: »

Pretty much the usual. Should we be happy with them instead ? That would be nice for a change.

Happy, angry, <insert other emotion here>.

Doesn't matter a damn unless we do something about it.

viztopia · 27-10-2009 04:31PM

I wonder what have teh unions got to say about this kind of thing seeing as they are the only ones that can save us now?? surley they represent some of the people on sick leave?

mathie · 27-10-2009 04:35PM

viztopia wrote: »

I wonder what have teh unions got to say about this kind of thing seeing as they are the only ones that can save us now?? surley they represent some of the people on sick leave?

Unions unavailable for comment due to Swine Flu.

The Monkey Pump · 27-10-2009 04:44PM

Sensationalist media shyte - we know nothing about the situation. €1.3 million salary in 6 years at the HSE - my guess is that the employee is possibly a consultant surgeon. If (s)he were to have been severely injured at work by a psychotic patient and can never hold a scapel again is it right that 9s0he should sign on the dole for the rest of his/her working life?

I am all for debating the issue, but seeing as we have no idea what the issue is, we can't have much of a debate now can we?

dearg lady · 27-10-2009 04:52PM

The Monkey Pump wrote: »

Sensationalist media shyte - we know nothing about the situation. €1.3 million salary in 6 years at the HSE - my guess is that the employee is possibly a consultant surgeon. If (s)he were to have been severely injured at work by a psychotic patient and can never hold a scapel again is it right that 9s0he should sign on the dole for the rest of his/her working life?

I am all for debating the issue, but seeing as we have no idea what the issue is, we can't have much of a debate now can we?

hmm, good point, there does seem to be a case building against the public sector by the media. Every day it's a different thing!

Dinner · 27-10-2009 04:56PM

Thread title seems a bit misleading. They've gotten 1.3 million in the last 6 years, so it's not really a 1.3 million salary, more of a ~€216k salary. Still a lot of money, but not as sensationalist as 1.3m.

homerjay2005 · 27-10-2009 05:03PM

shocking, but, not surprising. as the sh*t starts to hit the fan, more and more of this will come out. this country has been in the badly run category for years.

HSE employee sick for 6 years receiving €216,667 p/a

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