Teachers’ sick days

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Premier Kathleen Wynne has responded to a report about the cost of teachers’ sick days.

The Globe and Mail got a copy of the not-for-profit School Boards’ Co-operative Inc. report, which claims those sick days cost Ontario school boards nearly a billion dollars last year. The province took away teachers ability to bank unused sick days in 2012, and capped the number of sick days they could take at full pay at 11 a year.

The School Boards’ Co-operative found teachers and education workers took an average of 10.29 sick days each last year, up from nearly nine days, four years ago.