Workers, in case of getting sick or having an accident, have the temporary disability subsidy. It is what is colloquially known as the work leave and its objective is to cover the loss of income suffered by employees in this situation, during the time they take to recover and therefore, they are able to work again.
Now, although for some people it is unknown, in the case of work casualties due to common illness, a price requirement must be met. In addition to being affiliated or assimilated to the discharge, Social Security requires having 180 days quoted in the 5 years prior to the causative fact, as stated in article 172 a.) Of the General Law of Social Security (Available in this Official State Gazette).
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As a common disease, for example, flu, colds, gastrointestinal viruses … yes, as reflected in the aforementioned article, in the special situations provided for in the second and fourth paragraphs of article 169.1.a), will not require minimum price periods. ” These special situations They are the casualties for secondary disabilities, as well as that due to the interruption of pregnancy, voluntary or notwhile receiving healthcare for the public health service and is prevented for work, and the casualties in which the worker is for being a donor of organs or fabrics for his transplant.
In other cases of casualties due to common illness, the price requirement will have to be met, although this does not mean that it is not entitled to be temporary disability, but that we will be low without charging anything. The exception would be that the collective agreement allowed to collect an IT improvement complement even in cases where the required contributions do not meet.
Two notes when calculating the quotes
When seeing if there is that period of 180 days quoted, you have to know that the price of the proportional part of the two extraordinary payments is taken into account. This, as explained from the specialized portal ‘Labor issues’, is called “quota days”, as established by the Supreme Court in a Judgment of June 2002. These days, add up to 60 per year, so that 5 days would be added for each working month.
Likewise, as established in article 249 bis of the General Social Security Law, for computing purposes, full -time temporary contracts equal to or less than five days, “every day of work will be considered as 1.4 days of contribution, without in any case a number of days greater than the one corresponding to the respective month can be computed monthly”.