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• Source: Boston Globe
• Date: September 17, 2006
• URL: Read the story
• Bylines: Matt Carroll
• Topics: Local Government
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: Matt Carroll of the Boston Globe used municipal employee data to find that "municipal workers in Brockton, Dedham, Plymouth, Quincy, and Weymouth take up to 50 percent more sick days than employees in the private sector overall." About a quarter of city employees called in sick at least 10 days during 2005. The paper examined sick-leave records after a Brockton policeman took 251 sick days over the past three years.