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Shannon Barlow: Frog Recruitment Managing Director on whether working parents need more sick leave

Published: June 11, 2024, 10:07 p.m.

Do working parents need more sick leave?\xa0

The conversation has arisen again, Frog Recruitment polling more than 1,700 office workers, 969 of which were working parents, to find out.\xa0

The poll revealed that 625 are coming to work sick after running out of leave, and 46% of parents use their own sick leave to stay at home with an ill child.\xa0

Frog Recruitment Managing Director Shannon Barlow told Mike Hosking that businesses don\u2019t necessarily need to allocate more than ten days of sick leave, but rather to work with their employees to find something that works for everyone.\xa0

She said that it\u2019s an issue when you\u2019ve got to not only be able to take care of yourself and your family, and the people around you at work.\xa0

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