The ministry and social agents will meet this Monday to set up the dialogue table. This proposal has not been well received by unions, although it has been welcomed by employers, and has led to rejection by some political groups such as Sumar and Podemos.
The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration will meet with social agents on Monday, October 14, at 12:30 PM to set the table from which the dialogues will begin to reform temporary disability to provide greater flexibility.
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, proposed that workers on medical leave could gradually return to work on October 3, voluntarily and under medical supervision, which caused quite a controversy.
Saiz has assured that his flexible sick leave proposal is not trying to save money for Social Security due to high temporary disability expenses, but rather his intention is to “expand rights” and promote “social justice.”
According to the latest social security data, Spending on temporary disability increased by 17.6% in the first eight months of the year to 10,422 million euros.
This added the Secretary of State for Social Security and Pensions, Borja Suárez The proposal to make sick leave more flexible comes from thirteen European leaders in the region. that have “some model” of these types of victims, such as the Scandinavian countries or France.
Saiz’s proposal has not been well received by unions, although it has been welcomed by employers, and has led to rejection from some political groups such as Sumar and Podemos.
In addition, Sumar’s promoter, Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diaz, has warned that it will not allow protections for workers on sick leave to be changed.
In that sense, CCOO and UGT They have warned that they have no intention of negotiating flexible withdrawals and that they will attend next Monday’s meeting to discuss the issues of the latest reform they agreed on.
For his part, the chairman of the CEOE employers’ association, Antonio Garamendiwelcomed the proposal to make the reinstatement of an employee on sick leave more flexible and underlined the need to work on “what sick leave is and what the full consequences of sick leave are.”
Source: EITB
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