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Social Security has issued a criterion so that workers who are in preventive isolation until they see if they have the coronavirus are considered at that time of sick leave due to common illness.

The sick leave is charged from the fourth day, unless the agreement to which the worker is accepted improves this coverage.

Between the fourth and the fifteenth leave, both included, the payment of the temporary disability benefit corresponds to the employer to later go to pay from Social Security.

In the criterion issued by Social Security this week, it is explained that the period in which a worker, after contact with a case of this virus, is subjected to forced preventive isolation will be considered "as a situation of temporary disability resulting from illness common".

During that time, they state, "the workers are not affected, strictly speaking, by an accident or by an illness", but "they must be monitored and receive the corresponding health care" to diagnose their condition, so "they are prevented from I work for obvious reasons. "

From the Social Security they add that it is the same criterion that was applied in Influenza A and that it is set to "guarantee the protection of workers during such periods of isolation" and to "dispel doubts" that have been raised.

In fact, according to Efe, Professor of Labor and Social Security Law at the University of Valencia, Daniel Toscani , a period of observation for common illness, such as the case of the coronavirus, is not considered a reason for leaving .

Thus, in principle, workers affected by a quarantine would not have had this consideration without the criteria published by Social Security.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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