Civil servants are outraged with a bill that could modify the working conditions that regulate the use of medical leave after the scandal over the misuse of leaves of absence that was uncovered in the country. teleSUR
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00:00In Chile, civil servants are outraged with a bill that could modify the working conditions that regulate the use of medical leave after the scandal over the misuse of leave of substance that was uncovered in the country.
00:14From Santiago de Chile, Paula Dragni with the report.
00:19They went out to protest in front of the headquarters of the same government they support.
00:24That's the contradiction.
00:25That's why what was going to be a public sector strike finally turned into just a bander,
00:29as though, but not for that reason, with less rage.
00:32The fact is that public workers will be the most affected by the bill that intends to change the system of medical leave of absence.
00:40This effectively puts at risk, also the approach to absenteeism, and presenteeism.
00:46Why do we mention this?
00:47Because, by affecting the workers' remuneration, what will happen in the end, is that our colleagues will work sick.
00:53This criminalizes illness, and this can finally translate into a risk for the quality of care, and also into an increase in work-related accidents.
01:02The scandal uncovered by the National Comptroller's Office, when it discovered that more than 13,000 public employees were using medical leave to travel abroad or engage in other activities, had its consequences.
01:16It was President Boric himself who introduced the bill to modify the operation of the work and capacity subsidy, known as SIL.
01:22Currently, we have been able to observe that there is a populism regarding the vulnerability of public workers
01:31to discredit us with respect to our work, when the percentage that makes or misuses this acquired right
01:38is very low, in relation to the total number of state workers.
01:44The bill even contemplates imprisonment for those who make use of medical leave without being sick.
01:54Pomologates the conditions for private and public workers.
01:57Establishes a new latency period for the payment of salary for medical leave, adjusts the number of days for declaring health incompatible with the position,
02:03and gives even more supervisory powers to the Compan, a body that, together with external doctors, evaluates the workers' diagnosis and the indication of rest.
02:14Today we are condemned, and they want to punish practically, all the workers in the country.
02:25Well, through the cut we have been working on, we have asked the government to remove the urgency or the extreme urgency,
02:31and that we can make constructive proposals, not to go backwards, but to move forward in terms of social protection.
02:37However, trade unionists are suspicious and accuse the government of interventionism in order to reduce the state,
02:50punishing its workers and saving money by questioning their medical leaves.
02:53The figures are clear, the fiscal savings, if the project is approved, represent billions of dollars annually.
02:59It is not only the bill against medical leave that affects our work, it is also the famous fiscal rule.
03:16Many on the right and the left defend this famous fiscal rule that today has us with more than six health services
03:22that do not have money to make it to the end of the year.
03:25The bill was introduced in July of this year, and is advancing in Congress as rarely before.
03:35The repudiation of the use of false medical licenses was widespread.
03:38Will the innocent pay for the sins of the guilty?
03:40There will be a deal.
03:42Carolina Sandoval and Paola Dragnik, Telesur, Chile.
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