I felt compelled to log-in and comment for once having heard first-hand stories with my mother being a unit manager within AHS. I don't recall exactly what the cap on sick days or their allowed usage is but she's hit that mark and carried it forward for years (somewhere in the high hundreds of hours) while using ~0-2 days annually as required. Of course there may be abuse within the system but that's obviously on the ethics of each individual person and the system to catch. I'm sure she would be all for stricter standards here. Additionally while there may be a lot of redundant positions within AHS, she works Saturdays atleast once a month.
More importantly she manages a team of ~20 unionized employee's and has numerous stories of your stereotypical low performers that are basically impossible to get rid of... Off the top of my head I've heard of uncanny occurances of Monday + Friday sickdays (especially corresponding to long weekends), suspect WCB claims of "a tweaked neck" filed only after making the respective employee aware that they're currently at a 0 sick day balance and would have to take unpaid time, prescription appointments resulting in the entire afternoon off work, etc. Basically the type of people that would be fired in public companies within a week but are earning nice pensions from our tax payers dollar.
Meanwhile she has a few new to Canada employees supporting their families working under her with 3x the work ethic that she cant offer full-time positions to because they're taken up by some of the aforementioned employees. Bringing up c0oncerns about the low-performers results in something along the lines of "conflict resolution" meetings with a union rep that she says basically becomes glorified babysitting and progress reports.
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