Esquerra Republicana (ERC) has registered the request for the appearance of the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, to give explanations regarding whether companies are receiving information about the reason for medical leaves when these are due to disabling rules. or abortions. This is requested by the parliamentary group that points out the recent information known about a “glitch” in the regulation of special leave for painful periods, due to abortions and in the final stretch of pregnancy, which has caused companies are receiving information about the reason for medical leave.
This situation, according to ERC warns, compromises “the privacy of the workers” and “breaks current regulations on data protection.”
ERC has also requested the appearance of the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondobecause they consider that, “as the person most responsible for safeguarding women’s rights,” it must “give an urgent response and be on the front line” to ensure that the Ministry of Social Security prioritize solving what they consider a “very serious error.”
“We consider that it is a priority that both ministries give all the necessary explanations to repair the situation, expose the measures they intend to adopt to solve the error and to guarantee that this does not happen again,” they emphasize.
Organic Law 1/2023, of February 28, on sexual and reproductive health and voluntary interruption of pregnancy, which modified the General Social Security Law to recognize the right to temporary sick leave for women with painful menstruation and due to termination of pregnancy. Although, last week it was known, according to information from eldiario.es, that Social Security informs companies of the origin of sick leave when they are due to disabling rules or abortions. After hearing this news, both the general secretary of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, and the general secretary of CCOO, Unai Sordo, urged Social Security to avoid telling companies the origin of these losses.
For its part, Social Security alleged that it does not “literally” inform companies of the medical leave of workers that is caused by painful periods or the interruption of pregnancy, but it does tell them through codes the peculiarities that They have these situations so that companies can identify them and make the appropriate payment of said temporary disability (IT) benefits. The complaint came from an employee in Galicia who reported to the CIG union that her company had learned through Social Security that the reason for her leave was an abortion, which aggravated her traumatic situation and deepened her suffering.
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