Loading ...Britain is suffering its longest sick note epidemic for 25 years as 2.7MILLION people claim they are too ill to work and holding back the country’s economic growth in the process
- Number of employees claiming sickness has risen for four-and-a-half years
- Longest sustained trend since the late 1990s when it rose to around 2.4million
- Spending on benefits is forecast to rise to £90.9billion by the end of the decade