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Many employees tend to “coincidentally” get sick during the farming period, holidays or during vacations. The managers complain that family doctors tend to give out medical leaves much too easily, action that affects the company’s activity and also results in money loss. Nevertheless I haven’t quite come across too many companies that actually complain about the conspicuously odd way that these medical leaves are given to the employees. The work inspectors reckon that only rigorous internal company regulations can help diminish the rate of “imagined illnesses”. The employees have started getting sicker and sicker, but it just so happens that more than often the main symptoms are actually only 1: laziness. The managers, especially the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), started complaining as a result of being overflowed with health certificates, especially in the busiest working periods, which is a disadvantage to their entire economical activity. The managers blame the doctors for the extreme easiness with which they release these certificates. Newly, these medical leaves have easily become a way to evade stressful schedules at work or to take care of personal problems, without having to ask permission from the manager. Sometimes, the employees turn to this easy solution because of a busy schedule that is due at work. However, the number of those “getting” sick over night grows bigger and bigger. Some doctors say that there are employers that even try to convince their employees to give up their holidays and leaves in favor of other gains they might/could offer them. The managers dislike the fact that this storm of medical leaves pops up exactly during the busiest semesters – during spring, fall and during the holidays - when many employees have several agricultural issues to take care of. (e.g.: pig slaughtering) The managers involved are not willing to pay these medical leaves anymore, knowing that those who bring medical leaves for “serious illnesses” receive serious payment for doing nothing. The employees’ attitude is not well received. If they find another job they immediately leave the old one, without even considering that there may be an undelivered order that still needs be delivered/still has to be delivered in due time. This means inducing more pressure on the other employees which also means having to pay them overtime. Thus the entire company activity is disturbed. It seems bleak to me to pay the employee for all the cheap excuses that one can come up with. These medical leaves shouldn’t be paid by the owner/employer but by the system that cashes the expenses of the assurance policies. We paid our dues when we paid our taxes. We fight that this payment be made by the state, just like the maternity leave is.
Solutions: Proof of more responsibility on the doctors’ side and internal regulations. Even though I agree that this phenomenon gains more and more on its seriousness with each month that passes, the inspectors of labor have warned the employers that they must/are bound to pay the medical leaves, once they have been presented with a medical certificate. The only solution to this would be the doctors to become more responsible and aware about releasing medical certificates and for the company to set up more rigorous regulations as far as this matter is concerned. Managers can demand substantial proof from the employees and also organize investigation committees for those already in their leave. The latter would be more difficult to accomplish for the small-sized enterprises. The only way of fining an employee is after several internal norms, which binds him to announce the medical leave right after the first signs of illness. He can also bring a copy of the medical certificate, and the receipt that shows him to have paid for the necessary drugs/medicine; he should normally also state an address at which he can be found, should the employer wish to visit him. The labor inspectors said that only after such a detailed checking, that can prove the employee isn’t ill, will the employer be entitled not to pay his employee. (for that exact period of time) Even family doctors admit that people usually ask for leaves without actually needing one, but even so the doctors prefer avoiding statements which would involve them in such practices. Statistics show that people are unlikely to stop invoking such measures as unnecessary leaves. Most of them actually try to lie to their doctor but there are also cases where employees really are experiencing a certain illness. In most of the cases the managers complain that their employees unjustifiably benefit from these medical leaves, in which case there is a disagreement between the beneficiary and the signing doctor. In compliance/according to the insurance policy laws, the civilians that do have an insurance policy are entitled to the medical leave and to a compensation/requital for being temporary incapacitated, should they be able to prove this via a certificate. The maximum allowed period for such a leave is 180 days and can be prolonged in extreme cases. According to the law, a medical leave can be granted by the family doctor for a period of maximum 14 days. After this period the medical leave can be extended by a specialized doctor to a maximum of 90 days. Should the medical leave beneficiary need a longer rest period, then the 180 days leave must be approved by an expert doctor. “Anything that exceeds the 180 days period can be granted an extra number of maximum 90 days only with the recommendation of a specialized doctor. This however must be signed and approved by the Supreme Committee of the National Institute for Medical Expertise (and Work Capacity Recovery), and is usually granted in cases of affections to the locomotive system”.
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