Possible Clues:

• Avoid duty by pretending sickness
• Avoid work delay after morning's over
• Fake an illness to avoid work, e.g
• Work out perhaps this is the job of the idle?
• Two African countries I must leave to avoid labour
• Feign sickness to avoid work.
• Dodge work
• A gremlin disposed to swing the lead
• Lying back in the morning, hang about and feign illness
• Heather, after a disturbing second half of summer, gets to swing the lead