Mastodawn

Sickness absence is costing employers £85 billion a year and costing the taxpayer £212 billion a year, but sure, tell me again how it's not cost effective to offer covid or flu vaccines to working age people on the NHS.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v80n7mz2jo

#SicknessAbsence #EconomicInactivity #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #Flu #Influenza #UKEconomy

Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over £85bn sickness bill, ex-John Lewis boss warns

The number of people who are out of work for health reasons has grown by 800,000 since 2019.

BBC News

AutisticMumTo3 Sep 20, 2024

Labour makes ‘unthinkable’ and ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people from DWP ‘inactivity’ board – Disability News Service
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-makes-unthinkable-and-exclusionary-decision-to-sideline-disabled-people-from-dwp-inactivity-board/

#Labour
#Ableism
#Disabled
#Exclusion
#DWP
#AboutUsWithoutUs
#EconomicInactivity
#Benefits
#WCA
#Deaths

Labour makes ‘unthinkable’ and ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people from DWP ‘inactivity’ board

Campaigners have criticised the Labour government’s “hugely disappointing” and “exclusionary” decision to set up a board of experts to examine “economic inactivity” without appointing a single repr…

Disability News Service

Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦Mar 12, 2024

It's almost as if when you let a virus that can leave people disabled and unable to work for months, possibly years, run rampant throughout the population, you end up with more people unable to work.

Whoever could have seen that coming?

#EconomicInactivity #LongTermSickLeave #Covid19 #LongCovid #LetItRip

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534537