Country Tires of Tired Workers Taking Sick Leave
Swedish welfare authorities plan to launch a campaign to educate Swedes about when they can take sick leave, after a study showed 40 percent believe it is enough to feel tired to stay home and draw benefits.
“Our mistake could be that, in some misdirected benevolence, we were not clear enough on where the limits are,” the National Social Insurance Board’s head Anna Hedborg wrote in a column for the Dagens Nyheter daily.
Sweden, famous for its generous welfare policies, has seen sick leave absenteeism double over the last two years to 800,000, or one fifth of the workforce, by late 2003.
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