Should NHS Workers Receive Six Months Full Sick Pay? | Storm 7 Alexis

A new report has found that NHS staff take significantly more sick leave than workers in the private sector. While many private sector employees receive only a few weeks of paid sick leave, NHS workers can receive up to six months on full pay depending on their circumstances and length of service. Critics argue that generous sick pay arrangements place an increasing burden on taxpayers and contribute to staff shortages across the health service. They say NHS employees should be treated more like workers in the private sector. Supporters disagree. They argue that doctors, nurses, paramedics and other frontline healthcare workers are regularly exposed to illness, work long shifts, face high levels of stress and burnout, and deserve stronger workplace protections than most employees. Should NHS sick pay be reduced? Are healthcare workers receiving benefits that are out of step with the rest of Britain? Or would cutting sick pay make it even harder to recruit and retain staff in an already stretched health service? Jeremy Vine, Storm & Alexis, Matt Allwright, and Vanessa are on television every weekday at 9:15am until 1:30pm on Channel 5. Subscribe to the channel for more celebrity interviews, hot topics and debates: https://bit.ly/34DvAv4 Twitter:   / jeremyvineon5   Facebook:   / jeremyvineon5   Instagram:   / jeremyvineon5   #NHS #NHSSickPay #NHSWorkers