Yolanda Diazsecond vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, has recognized in the Congress of Deputies that “the work absenteeism is a problem”, but he also wanted to make it clear that it is important to differentiate what is and what is not absenteeism. “A worker who does not go to her workplace because is sick It is not absenteeism, it is that it has to be protected. And a worker who has to take care of his father hospitalizedis conciliation“, he stated.
Díaz has also explained that the fact of missing work to exercise the right to strike is not absenteeism either: “It is democracy and it is human rights“.
This is the answer to a question posed to him by the Junts per Catalunya deputy. Josep Maria Cerverain the Government control session that was held this Wednesday in Congress, about the measures the Government is taking to control absenteeism from work.
Díaz has recognized that the absenteeism data in Spain is double that of the European average. In the European Union as a whole, the average absenteeism is 2.5 points, while in Spain the figure climbs to 4.1. The vice president has made it clear, therefore, that there is “a serious problem”, but that it is necessary to evaluate “the causes” that produce this absenteeism and also “the consequences” that the DANA crisis in it.
In terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Díaz has estimated one and a half million euros the impact of absenteeism. To close her intervention, she has listed what, for her, are the elements that must be taken into account to analyze and find a solution to the problem: delve into the social dialoguekeep in mind respect for the workers’ rightsdefend public services by avoiding “using absenteeism to privatize“and reduce mutual insurance and bet even more on public health.
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