The president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) of Castilla y León, Santiago Aparicio, identified absenteeism at work “as one of the great problems” that employers are currently facing. Aparicio assured that Every day, 1.4 million people “do not go to work”. of whom 1.1 million have “a temporary incapacity for work”, although there are 300,000 people “who have no justification”.
Santiago Aparicio participated in Burgos in a conference on “Absenteeism, a challenge for competitiveness”, andDuring which he was accompanied by the director of the Adecco Group Institute, Francisco Javier Blasco, and the head of the social security sector of the Ministry of Employment, Diversity and Social Protection of the CEOE, Olimpia del Aguila.
The president of the Castilian and Leonese employers’ association stressed that absenteeism at work affects “the productivity of the company and its competitiveness” and causes “terrible” damage, which is why employers have already asked the administration to take “measures to mitigate this hemorrhage”. .
Thus, Aparicio made a distinction between illness or work stoppage due to temporary incapacity and those who have no justification, which places the employer “in a fairly compromised situation” The day allowed Burgos businessmen to “see, through other colleagues who have suffered”, the possible solutions that “small businesses can find”.
Meetings of this type will be organized throughout the Community to really raise employers’ awareness of what the situation of absenteeism is and what “they should do when they suffer from it and how to work in this regard”, he said. – he clarified, reports Ep.
