More than half of West Lothian Council’s 8,000 employees were off sick for one or more days last year new figures show.
Council statistics show this was double the council’s targets for absences and a climb in absences since the previous year during the Covid pandemic a report to the Corporate Policy and Resources Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel revealed.
The target is to have no more than 3.6% of staff absent across all seven areas of council operations. From April to December last year the figure was 6.29%.
