This Saturday, April 1, marks the end of an era. Workers will no longer have to deliver the part of the leave to the company. The process is automated and frees the worker, according to the modifications in the management and control of the temporary disability processes that come into force today.
Until now, when a person went to the doctor, he gave them the sick leave in duplicate. He had to deliver one of the copies to the company, mutual or management entity within a specified period. With the new standard, this will no longer be an obligation for the worker.
In this way, the doctor who issues the medical part of discharge, confirmation or discharge will only give you a copy and it will be the same public health service -or, where appropriate, mutual or collaborating company- that sends said part to Social Security. telematically. Thus, it avoids the process of delivering it to the company for the person in a situation of temporary disability.
The Social Security will communicate to the companies the data related to the medical reports of sick leave, confirmation and discharge referring to their workers at the latest on the first business day following their receipt.
The measure will affect temporary disability processes that were already in progress when the change came into effect, provided they have not exceeded 365 days in duration.
The Government considers that all parties benefit from this new procedure. Taking advantage of the possibilities offered by advances in digitization and information technologies, procedures are streamlined and bureaucratic obligations that unnecessarily prolong processes are eliminated.
In statements to Servimedia, the president of the Spanish Association of Human Resources Directors (AEDRH), Jesús Torres, raised some doubts, since Social Security has a deficit of some 10,000 people in its workforce.
Many SMEs in Spain have outsourced the management of casualties and other similar issues to consultancies and agencies. “I don’t know if Social Security is going to be able to identify these external advisors when sending the termination reports. It is a reasonable doubt,†Torres said. He also remarked that it can have an impact on the control of absenteeism cases.
