Until now, at Public employees Their salary was not deducted if they presented a sick certificate, but starting this Wednesday this change will begin to apply where they will only have nine working days of leave. license for disease paid or accident year. This may be requested alternately or consecutively.
From the tenth day they will have the right to subsidy, which will be an amount equivalent to 75% or 100% salary, depending on several factors. Every January 1st, the number of days available will be renewed, which do not accumulate from one year to the next.
The regime will be applied in stages
Being the Presidency of the Republic the first sector of the State where the new licensing system will be applied, in April it will be the turn of the ministries. In this case, it will apply to more than 1,000 employees in the portfolios of Tourism, Public Health, Work, Industry, Environment, Housing and Foreign Relations.
In June, decentralized services and other organizations will be included, while in July it will be applied to the remaining ministries: Livestock, Economy and Finance, Social Development, Defense, Interior and Education and Culture. However, the new regime has exceptions such as prosecutors, public defenders, magistrates and civil servants. National Administration of Public Education (Anep).
Controversies around the licensing system
In July, the Confederation of Organizations of State Officials (COFE) presented the 14,000 signatures of public employees gathered against the new regime Medical licenses established by the Executive power, with the aim of appealing the decree in question and preventing the new system from beginning to apply.
From COFE they point out that the background is purely economic, while they assure that the government intends “collect, adjust at the expense of workers’ healthwhen the worker and his family are in greater fragility.”
However, for President Lacalle Pou, the measure is nothing more than implementing a licensing regime similar to that of the private sector, to equal conditions with public sector workers, to whom the salary is paid by “anyone who gets up to work”. “We have to be careful with people’s resources, and when we see that a lot of money is being spent on licenses, it seems to us that we have to make things more extensive, we shouldn’t take it as an attack or anything like that,” said the president in the middle of the last year.
Source: Ambito
