As the health market resembles, The current law provides that sickness remuneration paid by the employer is available to personswhich were under 50 years of age and this period is then a total of up to 33 days in a calendar year, and employees after 50 years of age receive sick pay for 14 days in a calendar year, with this 14-day period in force from the next calendar year after the year in which the employee was 50 years old.
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If a given period for individual age groups expires, The employee is entitled to sickness benefit, which ZUS pays. The exception is the situation in which the employer is a payer of benefits.
Then the sickness benefit is paid for up to 182 days, Unless the beneficiary of the allowance is pregnant or the beneficiary suffers from tuberculosis. Then it is possible to extend this period to 270 days.
Therefore, there was a proposal that ZUS would take over the obligation to pay for sick pay from the first day of the employee's absence. The health market emphasizes that this proposal is one of 100 specifics for 100 days, which the Civic Coalition prepared before the election in 2023.
The health market also describes that in response to the interpellation, referring to the question about the financial effects of such changes, the Undersecretary of State in MRPiPS admitted that An increase in the sickness fund's expenditure is expected, which is already deficit. “This may also result in an increase in unjustified sickness absence,” we read.
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According to the portal, due to the above -mentioned system problems, work is underway on the act assuming a change in the provisions in the area of medical case law. They are to increase the efficiency of medical certificates, as well as improve the checks of the correctness of the use of sick leave.
The portal states that according to MRPiPS information, The specific date of adopting the bill was not indicated.
The ministry also announced the completion of inter -ministerial arrangements and public consultations of the bill amending the Act on the social insurance system and some other acts. This project contains proposals for medical case -law reforms, inspection of issuing medical certificates and checking the correct use of sick leave. These changes are to prevent abuse of adjudicating on incapacity for work and issuing and using sick leave.
