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Younger workers almost twice as likely as those over 50 to 'pull a sickie'

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Younger workers almost twice as likely as those over 50 to 'pull a sickie'
Young workers are almost twice as likely to “pull a sickie” as workers over 50, new polling data has revealed. Four in five workers under 25 have admitted to taking at least one “sickie” in the last year when they were not too unwell to work, almost double that of workers aged 55 to 64. The polling, conducted by Merlin Strategy for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), defined a “sickie” as telling an employer you
29 Aug, 09:10