The president of Confebask, Tamara Yagüe, called for achieving a common agreement on absenteeism based on “commitment, collaboration and trust”, during a monographic day organized by the Basque Employers’ Association to combat absenteeism at work in the Basque Country.
After expressing the desire of the organization he leads to achieve this objective, he demanded urgent measures to improve health and well-being of workers and assured that this problem constitutes a “challenge for the productivity and competitiveness” of companies.
With this event, Confebask takes a step and draws attention to absenteeism at work in Euskadi – which holds the national leadership – focused primarily on temporary disability due to common illness, because until “very recently” it was “outside the country’s political and social agenda.”
Tamara Yagüe emphasized that this problem is not due to a single cause nor a “manual” solution and, therefore, she considers it necessary to develop a common diagnosis. adapted to concrete reality of Euskadi and “get to work”. “It will take us time. If today we start to travel the path to solutions thanks to this small contribution that we are making from Confebask, welcome, we will have won,” he said.
The representative of the Basque Employers’ Association said that this is an issue that represents a “real challenge” and indicated that the data from Euskadi are “striking” because, for many years, it “is in the lead » in rates of absenteeism at work and “well exceeds the average of all surrounding areas”.
Yagüe explained the multifactorial impact of absenteeism in Basque companies, because it generates “a increased operating costsreduces productivity, negatively affects the working environment and can also have consequences on the quality of service offered to the customer.
Only the CCOO and UGT unions were present today, while other social actors demonstrated and assured that there was no “real absenteeism problem”.
