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 target for absences and a climb in absences since the previous year during the covid pandemic.
The target is to have no more than 3.6 per cent of staff absent across all seven areas of council operations. From April to December last year the figure was 6.29 per cent.
