{"id":3283,"date":"2014-02-06T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T22:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2014-02-06T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T22:26:52","slug":"liar-liar-pants-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=3283","title":{"rendered":"Liar, Liar, Pants on fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3284\" title=\"liarliar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/liarliar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/liarliar.png 600w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/liarliar-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ooooooops!<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, Tony Clement was &#8220;wrong&#8221; about sick leave! Turns out, public servants aren&#8217;t taking 18.26 sick days per year, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the parliamentary budget office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca\/files\/files\/Sick%20Leave%20EN.pdf\">released a report<\/a> showing that public servants take 11.52 sick days per year.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, 11.52 sick days is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2014\/02\/06\/conservatives_sick_leave_claims_inflated_budget_officer_says.html\">in line with our counterparts in the private sector<\/a>, who take on average 11.3 days per year.<\/p>\n<p>Help us spread the word on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Union.NE.Syndicat.EN\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"twitter.com\/my_une\">Twitter<\/a>. Don&#8217;t let Tony lie to Canadians&#8230; again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooooooops! Turns out, Tony Clement was &#8220;wrong&#8221; about sick leave! Turns out, public servants aren&#8217;t taking 18.26 sick days per year, after all. Today, the parliamentary budget office released a report showing that public servants take 11.52 sick days per year. To be clear, 11.52 sick days is in line with our counterparts in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=3283\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liar, Liar, Pants on fire!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}