High Sick Leave Rates Plague Cook County Government Workers

Chicago News Cooperative reports:

Cook County employees take nearly twice as much paid sick leave as other state and local government workers across the country, according to statistics compiled by the county.

In the fiscal year that ended Nov. 30, 2011, the county said that on average, each employee took 6.64 hours of paid sick leave a month, compared with 3.6 hours a month for state and local government workers nationally, a figure based on a 2010 report by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Just a reminder to federal taxpayers, Chicago Democrats are hoping you'll bail them out.