FOI/25/036

Request

Can I please have data on sick days taken by employees within your organisation for the last 5 years. I'm aware you are unable to provide personal information so please just refer to each person as Person1, Person2 etc.

Please provide the information below in CSV file format in the following order of preference:

[Authority name],

Calendar Year,

Anonymised Person data,

Department,

Number  of days off sick,

Approx cost of sickness absence,

Reason (if available)
 

Please could you provide the information in a CSV file format in this order:

[Authority name], Year, Person XX, Department, Number of Days off sick, Cost, Reason

If any fields are not available or you are not able to provide for whatever reason, please just leave the space between the comma blank.
 

Response

Please find attached the CSV Spreadsheet with the data as requested for your FOI request.

Staff Person data & department that was requested is withheld by virtue of Section 40 – Personal Information (See Below).

Under section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, a public authority does not have to provide information where that information is considered personal information under the Data Protection Act 2018. We believe that, because of the low number of Staff involved with the associated departments, there is the potential for the staff member to be identified when combined with other available information, the information you have requested falls into this category, and therefore will not be supplying this as a result. The actual person figure has been replaced with <5 and department name has not been provided.