The second vice president and minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Diazstated this Thursday that his ministry “will not allow any variation or distortion in temporary disability”, and has asked citizens for peace of mind because “their health is guaranteed.”
Díaz thus referred to the announcement made this Thursday by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz. This has advanced its intention to address a sick leave reformto provide more flexibility in some cases that allow people to return to work.
Díaz has stated that the first thing he wants to say to the workers is “that you can be calmthat his health is guaranteed” and “his health is not at risk.” He then made it clear that, from the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy, they will not consent to any variation in the temporary disability as they have conceived it. .
“The Ministry of Labor is not going to consent to any alteration in the temporary disability, for which you contribute, work and which it is a right that they have achieved over the years”, he asked questions from journalists before attending the presentation of the book In the skin of the heroesby Xosé Fortes.
Previously, and in a similar vein, the second vice president had positioned herself through her social networks, ensuring that “you don’t play with your health“. “There is only one reason behind temporary disability: to protect the health of working people. There are no more options or reasons. Neither flexibility nor partiality, you don’t play with health,” he shared in X, which raises a new friction with the socialist part of the Executive.
There is only one reason behind temporary disability: to protect the health of working people. There are no more options or reasons. Neither flexibility nor partiality, you don’t play with health. https://t.co/u5A7o5MSRh
— Yolanda Díaz (@Yolanda_Diaz_) October 3, 2024
At a breakfast organized by the Nueva Economía Forum, Saiz explained that, based on “voluntariness and the guarantee of health and safety”, there will be cases in which some people low can join to work. Thus, he has given as an example the treatments of cancer or cases of pluriactivity, where sick leave may prevent working in one of the occupations but not in the other.
Sources from the Ministry of Social security have explained that a working group on this matter will be launched “imminently”, whose purpose will be to make a monitoring your evolution and its benefits, in addition to working on new proposals, together with social agents, unions and employers. The Ministry has detailed that one of the reform options is “to open the door to greater flexibility and to study cases in which a gradual incorporation into work could lead to an improvement in recovery.”
In any case, these proposals will always be addressed voluntarily and under the supervision of a doctorthat is, “with health as the first condition and guarantee of the worker.” “The goal is to open a debate according to the current casuistry and the new ways of living and working,” add the same sources, while insisting that “these proposals will be debated and agreed upon at the social dialogue table, as comes.” being the way of proceeding of the ministry”.
