Average 22 days a year sick leave!!! Hello! That is approaching civil service levels. This has nothing to do with sickness and everything to do with a fractured sense of entitlement to extra days off. Someone looked at you the wrong way, take a day off. Need a new frock for the night out, take a sick day. Kid sick and hubby's at work, no problemo, another "sick day". The whole year, you've never been sick, yet 22 days have piled up.
It's theft plain and simple.
Keeperboy seems to hold the traditional attitude. Imagine that, taking a sick day when you are actually sick. Bloody hell!!