Hasbeen I was thinking in terms of part of a severance being accrued sick leave being paid out to some form of fund that future employers could draw from if an employee required more sick leave than they had accrued in a new job.

It should not be too hard to keep track of an individuals entitlements not should it be expensive to do so.

Something Howard should have done when he was talking about people just changing job's if they didn't like changed conditions.

For those who've looked after their health when young but would like some backup against the risk of illness as they get older it could save a lot of grief.

R0bert

RObert good thought.
It gave me an idea, first have to hold my hands up I got it wrong in thinking of a one scheme nation wide.
That would require some to have less sick leave others more, a true problem.
We have not had much comment on the 60 million dollars in health costs we pay, tax payers each year.
So why not implement laws that reduce those costs, and in the first few years put those saved funds in a national scheme for such as you talk of.
I know those rules, if it was to work, would need too to target the poor performers in the workforce in this area sick leave.
And that some unions will fight it,almost without thought.
Such action is wrong, always, attempts to protect offenders in the end hurt every one,no union should forget that, it irks the members.
Offenders? like a road map, look at the past history of any group.
You will see outstandingly good attendance.
And outstandingly poor, a Neon light like warning.
Fairness and Equity should be no threat to workers or bosses, that is the past and future of good unionism,there is a difference.

60 million dollars in health costs we pay
Belly,
How much of the money provided by Govt to Health does actually go to health related coffers. From my experience much of the funding goes into bureaucratic bungling & misappropriation. Actual medical only gets some of it. In my area even the helicopter pilots say that they feel like a ...taxi because all they seem to be doing is flying pregnant teenage girls into town. I recall one team a while ago ordering a return charter on the same day for a week because they found the accommodation too crappy. Free medication for diabetic public servants on $180,000.- a year. Insanely expensive architect design staff accommodation. Toyota XLS 4wd provided for Drs. Most of the services going to repeat admissions for drunkeness related injuries. Dialysis machine not being used & just sitting there for years & patients being flown & accommodated in major towns instead. Patients booked on flights don't show up in time then get booked again. The list is simply endless of mismanaging within the health system. Centralisation is the root of this evil but try tell that to the supporters of social engineering Government.

Indy do you or did you work in health?
I can say, with certainty my 22 years in NSW roads department, it has had that many names too.
It is true, failures and a culture of failure from within the office kills every attempt at excellence.
BUT this is the amount the Doctor says is paid to him and his like.
To write a certificate, OFTEN after the person is well.
Think with me here, we do not get on, I make no further efforts to do so.
But what was your intention in that post?
Has it even remotely anything to do with the subject?
Are you concerned/not concerned with the wast.
Is it a worth while thing to not wast our money to prove a worker was sick?
Or should the person asking for it pay not us.

Belly,
yeah, strayed off topic there but my point was that waste is waste. Be it a Dr's certificate or the Dr himself wasting time & money by handing out certificates. I believe that sticking to topics in a strict sense more often than not fails to expose facts associated with the topic.
Anyhow, where I live sickies make up 3 fold the allocated time allowed. Most time off is simply due to hangover after footy or footy/fight injury. My sickies are mainly due to flu spread in small aircraft full of sneezing, coughing & spluttering by people who don't have the decency to hold a hanky in front of their mouth when sneezing.
Living in a rural area does not build up as immunity as does city life.
I believe stress causes people to take more & more sickies also. I think sickies will need to be reviewed as we become more & more susceptible to various flu. We need an allowance of sickies because we don't earn enough to see us through without getting paid sickies.
It all goes back to economics. I know senior bureaucrats who should be permanently on sick leave, it would prove more economic & beneficial to the rest of us.

misconduct is found. I personally find that not even a change of government can stamp out the incompetence & waste of public money in Qld Health. Qld Health needs to be abolished & start from afresh. If anyone knows of a good investigative journalist then send him to work around far north Qld.
Posted by individual, Monday, 6 August 2007 9:44:00 AM
Belly,
I just dug this up after hearing that Anna Bligh is getting stuck into Qld Health & talking about breaking it up.. Not a minute too soon.