Bill proposes job rights for people recovering from serious illness

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1. The bill would give people discharged after temporary or permanent disability due to a serious illness or carcinoma the right to reduce their working hours with lower pay for one year and to work remotely for six months, if the job allows it. The company could only refuse for technical impossibility or serious harm to its organization or production.
2. Workers who return after overcoming a serious illness and show physical or psychological deterioration that prevents them from doing their previous duties would have preferential right to fill another vacant position in the same professional group.
3. Job protection for people with a total or permanent disability or severe disability, when improvement is expected, would go from two to four years. Public employees would have the same reduced-hours and remote-work rights as other workers.
4. The Government would have to take several steps within six months to one year: expand the disability evaluation team, publish data on temporary disability, update the guide for primary care doctors, create training programs for unemployed people affected, and speed up access to the Minimum Vital Income for people with a serious and incurable illness.

Who it affects

• People discharged after temporary or permanent disability due to a serious illness or carcinoma.: They could reduce their working hours for one year and work remotely for six months after returning to work.
• Workers with after-effects that prevent them from returning to their previous job.: They would have preferential right to another vacant position in the same professional group.
• People with total or permanent disability or severe disability when improvement is expected.: Their job would be protected for four years instead of two.
• Public employees who have overcome a serious illness or carcinoma.: They would have the same reduced-hours and remote-work rights.
• People with a serious and incurable illness.: Their applications for the Minimum Vital Income would be processed on a priority basis.

Words worth knowing

Incapacidad temporal (temporary disability)

A situation where a person cannot work temporarily due to illness or accident and receives a benefit while recovering.

Incapacidad permanente (permanent disability)

Official recognition that a person cannot work, fully or partially, for health reasons. It can be total, absolute, or severe disability (gran invalidez).

Reserva de puesto de trabajo (job protection)

The right to get your job back when the disability situation ends, without the company having filled it permanently.

Ingreso Mínimo Vital (Minimum Vital Income)

A state benefit for people and families with low income.

Convenio colectivo (collective agreement)

An agreement between companies and worker representatives that sets working conditions for a sector or company.

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