{"id":19777,"date":"2013-04-08T12:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19777"},"modified":"2013-04-08T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:52:34","slug":"cash-for-sick-days-doesnt-have-the-same-populist-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/cash-for-sick-days-doesnt-have-the-same-populist-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;Cash for sick days&#8217; doesn\u2019t have the same populist appeal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/in-fight-over-banked-sick-days-a-widening-fairness-gap-is-exposed\/article10837039\/?service=mobile\" target=\"_blank\">Barrie McKenna<\/a> explains why there&#8217;s a widening fairness gap between public employees and everyone else:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The seven-month-long dispute [between the Ontario government and public school teachers] has exposed something much more disquieting: the widening fairness gap in the Canadian workplace. Thousands of public sector workers enjoy high salaries, guaranteed pensions and special perks that other Canadians will never get, regardless of how long or hard they work.<\/p>\n<p>Public sector workers argue they\u2019ve earned these gains through decades of tough negotiations with employers. And once promised, governments should not unilaterally revoke them. Fair enough. But it\u2019s not an argument that\u2019s likely to sway many Canadians, who exist in a parallel universe.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to bank and monetize sick days is virtually unheard of in the private sector. Less than 3 per cent of the 1,336 private sector plans in Mercer Canada Ltd.\u2019s client database allow employees to bank sick days, according to figures supplied to <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em>. That compares to 28 per cent of the 407 government plans tracked by the benefits consultant.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Ontario teachers chanted \u201crespect teachers, respect collective bargaining,\u201d while they suspended school sports, plays and other extracurricular activities for millions of students in recent months. \u201cCash for sick days\u201d doesn\u2019t have the same populist appeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Globe and Mail, Barrie McKenna explains why there&#8217;s a widening fairness gap between public employees and everyone else: The seven-month-long dispute [between the Ontario government and public school teachers] has exposed something much more disquieting: the widening fairness gap in the Canadian workplace. Thousands of public sector workers enjoy high salaries, guaranteed pensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,79,84],"tags":[509,95,87],"class_list":["post-19777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-education","category-government","tag-civilservice","tag-jobs","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-58Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19778,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}