Overview
- The Xunta, unions, and employer groups formed a Social Dialogue board Thursday, creating a team to write an Integral Plan to curb absenteeism, with first meetings next week.
- Officials said they will bolster Sergas health inspectors to speed long sick-leave reviews that now lag because the national Social Security lacks enough inspectors.
- The government proposed updated rules for mutual insurers, using a single authorization for diagnostic tests to cut paperwork while the public health system keeps the final say.
- Opposition leaders in BNG and PSdeG said the push risks eroding workers’ rights, and a PSdeG health spokesman on Friday called the inspector hiring a retreat from giving mutuas more control.
- Galicia logged about 75 temporary-leave cases per 1,000 workers last year and an average of just over 77 days per case, figures the Xunta cites to justify a plan that will also draw on a study by experts at the Universities of Santiago and Vigo.