Skiers should pay own sick pay
Wednesday 26 March 2008
Workers who take time off after breaking a bone during a skiing holiday should be responsible for their own sick pay, says the small and medium-sized business lobby group MKB-Nederland in Wednesday's Telegraaf.
'We do not see why an entrepreneur with six employees should be hit when two off them break a leg,' chairman Loek Hermans said.
The campaign is supported by the major employers’ organisation VNO-NCW. At the moment, companies have to pay workers up to two years sick pay.
The organisation claims 1.6 million people had time off work because of a sports or domestic injury last year.
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The problem isn't the nature of the injury. The problem is that you can be out sick for two years. You can be injured riding your bicycle to work just as easily as you can skiing.
By Tim Lee | March 27, 2008 11:39 AM