Fraternidad-Muprespa in the webinar of the Council of Social Graduates on control and monitoring of IT in CC
On Thursday, September 12,
Held online and before a capacity of close to four hundred attendees, mostly social graduates, the day was presented by the president of the Council,Joaquín Merchan Bermejo, who thanked the Mutua for its participation and commitment to the more than 17,000 social graduates from all over Spain, and to them for their attendance and interest in the day, introducing the participants below.
José Luis Sanz Zapata, a lawyer from the Mutual Counseling and Legal Services Center, began his presentation by explaining the nature and functions of the Mutual Collaborators with Social Security, providing relevant data from the sector on their hospital infrastructures, the workers employed and the healthcare activity carried out.
Next, he analyzed the concept of Temporary Disability and its coverage, explaining the different options of the employer, providing data on the distribution of coverage in the Professional and Common Contingency, and advancing some points of the Social Agreement signed between business organizations and unions on July 31. He also explained step by step the process for declaring the right to the benefit, including the verifications carried out by the mutual insurance companies and the periods, amounts and method of payment of the benefit, as well as the process for making a proposal for medical discharge due to a Common Contingency, providing recent data on the results of the lawsuits challenging said discharges.
Regarding the workers' obligations and the effects of non-compliance, it focused first on medical appointments and the consequences of non-appearance, explaining the requirements that mutual insurance companies must meet when summoning patients, explaining the reasons alleged by them for non-appearance, and providing abundant jurisprudence to illustrate when a non-appearance is considered justified, and when it is not.
Secondly, it analyzed the obligation to undergo the prescribed treatment and the refusal to undergo it, or its unjustified abandonment, and the consequences derived for the patient in light of jurisprudence.
And he ended his presentation with two cases of fraudulent action to access or maintain the benefit, such as joining the company with a known previous pathology, which can lead to the denial of the subsidy, and the performance of work incompatible with the sick leave situation, which can lead to the suspension and, if applicable, the termination of the benefit.
Natalia Fernández Laviada, Deputy Director General of Prevention, Quality and Communication, closed the day by pointing out the important role, not always sufficiently recognized, of social graduates in society, being a vital interest group for mutual societies.
He thanked all attendees for their presence, the speaker for his clarity and didactics, and the Council for the opportunity given. He added that mutual societies and social graduates, in harmony for decades, share values and challenges in their work dynamics hand in hand with the Administration with their common clients: mutual companies and self-employed workers.
He provided data on the current situation of medical leave, lost hours and cost, pointing out the importance of a joint reflection on causes and solutions. He added that it is a complex problem, with many aspects, that must be resolved between all the agents involved, companies, mutual societies, workers and administration, since it is everyone's interest to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of companies, but also their working conditions.
