The crux of the case brought by the civil liberties union is that the absenteeism rate never hit the 18-percentage-point threshold the board itself had set, said Vasvari of the Ohio ACLU . " The threshold policy is a sham, " he said.
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Two years ago, the government agreed with labor unions and employers to put on ice changes in welfare benefits intended to reduce the sick leave rate and instead work together to find other ways to cut the absenteeism rate by 30 percent by this year.
