The Department of Education lost nearly 17,000 days to sick leave among staff members over the past two years with stress and work stress among the most common reasons cited.
There were 8,069 sick days taken by the department’s 1,500 full-time equivalent staff last year, according to records released by them.
Of those, 417 days were taken for “work stress” while 454 days were taken by employees suffering from other types of “stress”.
