Yolanda Díaz’s reaction to socialist Elma Saiz’s proposal to work on flexible sick leave, which allows combining rest and employment. The second vice president and Minister of Labor harshly attacked the Minister of Inclusion and Social Security and assured that “We don’t play with our health”.
In a message via her social networks, the Sumar leader also highlighted that “There is only one reason behind temporary disability: protect the health of workers.” For Díaz, “there are no more options or reasons” that go into the management of sick leave.
So, the second vice-president was direct: “Neither flexibility nor partiality”.
Temporary incapacity has only one reason: to protect the health of workers. There are no more options or reasons. Neither flexibility nor partiality, you do not play with your health.
– Yolanda Diaz (@Yolanda_Diaz_) October 3, 2024
This way, The Minister of Labor expressed her rejection of the proposal made by Elma Saiz during a breakfast organized by Nueva Economía Fórum, where he expressed his interest in opening a negotiation table with social agents to propose this reform.
Saiz assured that, thanks to advances in medicine and technology, there are people who, for example, come out of a cancer treatment process “who perhaps, volunteering and of course, with the guarantee of their health, they can return to work.
The idea, said the minister, is modify the regulations to make them more flexibleas was done with the compatibility of work and retirement in the last agreement on pensions, since on this aspect the regulations in force “were very abrupt” and “either you were a worker or you were retired”.
“We have relaxed this transition, on a voluntary basis. The same goes for temporary incapacity,” declared the minister, who indicated that with current IT regulations, “either you are on sick leave or you are on sick leave. “.
