Up to 31,000 government employees in Kuwait went on sick leaves days before the Eid Al Fitr weekend to get a longer holiday vacation prompting the Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and Labour to issue a warning against absenteeism.
Minister Hind Al Sabeeh said those who took sick leaves on Wednesday and Thursday accumulated nine days off, including the two-day weekend and the three-day Eid holidays declared by the government.
Al Sabeeh on Thursday warned that those who did not report to work will be held accountable as several government offices were eerily empty amid the absence.
A committee also might be formed to look into the sick-leaves of workers and hold doctors who gave out bogus medical certificates accountable. The probe involves checking the patients’ health records and the names of the doctors who signed their leaves.
It was not the first time that thousands of Kuwait employees went on sick leave.
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