The worker will no longer have to submit a copy of the sick leave to the company

From this Saturday, April 1, a worker who is in a situation of temporary incapacity You will no longer need to submit a paper copy medical sick leave to the company, about which the Management will inform electronically.

The measure, approved by royal decree last January, will be applicable to all processes that have been ongoing since April and have not exceeded 365 days.

Until now, the doctor gave the worker a paper copy of the sick leave, certificate and medical discharge report to submit to his company within a certain period.

However, the Ministry of Inclusion and Social security He believes that, considering the development of computer systems, it is possible to omit the delivery of a paper copy of the health report intended for the company to the worker.

The new standard foresees this the doctor will deliver a copy of the leave, certificate or discharge certificate to the worker, and the public health or mutual will send the information to the National Institute for Social Security (INSS)which in turn will communicate to the companies only the administrative identification information relating to the parties.

That’s how it was intended to facilitate procedures in dealing with temporary incapacityas well as the worker’s avoidance of “bureaucratic obligations which, precisely because he is on temporary disability, can be burdensome”, as can be read in the preamble of the norm.

“The situation that occurred as a result of the pandemic gives more reasons for the said change,” the text added, as it testified to the “limitations” of the previous model “causing various incidents and emphasizing the need to modify the current ways of managing the processes of temporary incapacity for work in the first 365 days its duration.