The new wave of the pandemic, a consequence of the omicron variant, has once again triggered the number of people infected by Covid-19.

Along with these cases, the number of sick leave has also reached levels not seen in months, which has led various organizations to request that the discharge process be speeded up in cases without symptoms.

According to the latest Social Security data,

240,011 sick leave processes were started

in December 2021 , with an average duration of temporary disability of 9.96 days. Throughout the year 2021, only in the months of January (636,260), February (360,677) and July (402,203) more processes were started. In addition, although it is true that the time that workers spend on leave has been decreasing for several months, it must be borne in mind that the figure is conditioned by the non-completion of many of the processes that began in December.

The situation has meant, for example, that this Tuesday the Department of Education of the Basque Government had to replace 550 public education teachers who were on leave after having already made another 800 replacements for the start of classes on Monday, according to

Europa Press

.

Thus, from CEIM Madrid Business Confederation-CEOE, it has been requested that the discharge of processes be expedited without symptoms due

to the "alarming increase in sick leave

". In a statement, the organization explains that the self-diagnostic tests have facilitated the identification of positives and, consequently, also discharge due to infection or close contact. "Fortunately, both in one case and another, the development of severe symptoms has not been generalized," they clarify.

The negative consequence, CEIM points out, is that "sick leave has increased

more than 1,000%

in the Community of Madrid in just one month" and this has implied a cost for companies "that pay for the short-term temporary disability benefit. duration and suddenly have to reorganize almost daily. "

On the other hand, they consider that the collapse of Primary Care "prevents the necessary monitoring of discharge" and this sometimes leads to "an undue duration of the same", since workers cannot obtain discharge.

For CEIM, the discharge process should be "streamlined" for those who have tested positive in a self-diagnostic test and do not develop symptoms.

His proposal is to simultaneously give discharge and discharge to seven days "except for those who after that period have symptoms that prevent work."

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