Catalan employees almost miss their jobs one day a month for medical sick leavetwice as many as ten years ago. On average, an employee is absent from work, although it varies significantly depending on the sector. 7.6 hours each monthThis means that throughout the year the company should pay approximately the equivalent amount and no work should be done 201 euros per month. This is measured by a report presented this Tuesday by the Catalan employers’ association. PimekReaching out to Management and unions to reduce absenteeism levels.
Attendance is a controversial issue business relationships. On the one hand, this situation is a headache for business owners who see that they have no hands in the office or industrial site. And for the public healthcare system, this represents a benefit cost of €2,103.2 million. The vast majority of casualties, especially 8 out of 10, are in the last less than 15 days.
This problem allows us to quantify official statistics and locate 7.6 hours of absenteeism per worker per month. The controversy then arises in diagnosing the cause. Some claim that it takes time to heal their patients; others are subject to overloads that exhaust workers, and then there are voices pointing out fraud and abuse by Social Security system employees. Legally evacuated temporary disability It is always done with the permission of a doctor.
This Tuesday Pimec discussed the issue and mixed these three pillars together in his diagnosis and recommendations. Call for tightening controls fake And sanctions for workers who deceived their doctors into firing them. Plus more power for partner communities and private organizations that pay out of their own pockets for benefits. So, the same doctor who pays for an employee’s leave is the same one who decides when the employee returns, leaving it costing the joint company money.
This package of proposals also advocates further investment in public health to reduce waiting times. Or companies are promoting healthy habits among their employees, reviewing the work organization system to reduce risks, and implementing stress management programs to prevent overload.
Losses due to economic situation
The Catalan economy, and the economy in the West in general, lives in a correlation between its situation and the number of workers on sick leave. The better the economy, the lower the public services. The lower the unemployment rate, the higher the number of deaths. As the Pimec secretary general explained, what has historically been explained by the issue of expectations is Josep Ginesta. In other words, when employees see that their stability is in danger, they tend to go to the doctor less often, and sometimes they may even go to work sick for fear of being fired.
Data presented by Pimec reveal that the Catalan economy is emerging from the crisis. great recession There was a loss of 3.8 hours per employee per month. And in 2023, as the economy reaches record growth levels, there will be a loss of 7.6 hours, almost twice that. Although Pimec has not examined all of these, the trend is increasingly upward and intertwined with different variables.
Another coincidence found by Catalan employers is the relationship between company size and sick leave duration. The larger the company, the longer its employees are on sick leave. Pimec could not provide a scientific explanation for this. “SME employees are more committed,” the President said. Antoni Canete. They also did not assess whether lower-paid employees working more hours took more or less sick leave than the best-paid employees.
All of these topics are intended to be expanded in the future, and Pimec has made it one of its priorities to bring absenteeism into public discussion. For this purpose, he announced that he will organize a congress with representatives from the political, union and business world in order to develop a consensus that will contribute to reducing absenteeism.