Association of contractual and subjective job insecurity with sickness presenteeism among public sector employees

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Tarja HeponiemiJ Vahtera

Abstract

We examined the associations of contractual job insecurity (fixed-term vs permanent employment contract) and subjectively assessed job insecurity with sickness presenteeism among those who had no sickness absences during the study year. Survey data from a sample of 18,454 Public sector employees were gathered in 2004 (the Finnish Public Sector study). Fixed-term employees were less likely to report working while ill (odds ratio = 0.88, 95% confidence interval = 0.77 to 0.99) than permanent employees. Subjective insecurity was associated with higher levels of working while ill, and this association was stronger among older employees. These results remained after adjustments for demographics, health-related variables, and optimism. Our results suggest that subjective job insecurity might be even more important than contractual insecurity when a public sector employee makes the decision to go to work despite feeling ill.

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