I work for Birmingham City Council and have been there all week through the snow and ice, sorting out child care with schools shut, and as Heather says, those taking time off will take it from their flexi or have unpaid leave. Every member of our office staff have been in work despite the difficulties.
My pension scheme is a joke. I will get a far better pay out from my previous employer, a bank, to which I didn't contribute a penny and which was funded totally by customers.