In the first instance, you should know what anxiety is: anxiety is a psychological state that occurs as an element of defense against circumstances that threaten us, so it keeps us alert and allows us to adapt to optimize our performance.
But on many occasions, this altered state negatively affects our health, and when this happens we may need a leave from work due to anxiety.
What is sick leave due to anxiety?
When a worker starts filing symptoms of anxiety at work, which means a continuous state of alert against a threatening circumstance, which leads to a state of restlessness and alteration that prevents a good work performance, even to the extent of causing inability to work, is when we speak that a leave from work due to anxiety.
There are many factors that can trigger a state of anxiety in the work environment, here we will mention some:
- Very long and strict working hours.
- Excessive demand at work.
- Complex and confusing activities.
- Lack of good organization.
- Fear of erring in work activities.
- Lack of communication.
- Hostile work environment.
- Little clarity in the activities according to the roles.
- Inadequate occupational health and safety conditions.
Although anxiety is not considered an occupational disease, many cases have been seen where workers begin to manifest anxiety when experiencing the aforementioned factors in their jobs. There are jobs that have more tendencies to generate anxiety than others, it also depends a lot on the type of work that is done.
Requirements to be discharged for anxiety
If a person begins to suffer from anxiety symptoms, it should be evaluated by a doctor to analyze your status and determine if you can be discharged.
If the anxiety box appears due to work, then The Mutual is the body entrusted to diagnose the state of the employee and formalize the leave, by pointing out the anxiety as a professional illness or work accident.
In case the anxiety has occurred outside the work environment, then a GP is the one who must proceed with the analysis and grant the discharge, but pointing out the anxiety as a common disease.
What is the Mutual?
It is a non-profit society, authorized by the Ministry of Labor that works in conjunction with the Social Security Institute, processing important benefits such as temporary disability, professional contingencies such as accidents at work and occupational diseases. Also the cessation of activity of self-employed or self-employed. It also deals with the prevention of hazards at work and optimizes health and safety environments in companies. Since 1990 they arose to deal with problems related to workplace accidents.
The Mutual Societies are financed with contributions based on two different quotas, the management of common contingencies and the professional ones.
When Mutuals provide assistance in managing common contingencies, is financed by taking part of the quotas for common contingencies that are the responsibility of the employer as well as the employee, in addition to raising funds from the General Treasury of the Social Security.
If the Mutual Societies attend due to professional eventualities, it is financed exclusively by the employer and the General Treasury of the Social Security.
For the cases of common contingency of the workers of a company, must be compulsorily covered by the Mutual. But in the cases of professional contingencies, the Mutual is optional and voluntary, since for those cases they can also opt for another management association that is from the National Institute of Social Security.
Payment of benefits during sick leave
The payment of benefits corresponds to different issuers, according to the number of days required for leave due to anxiety. The first 3 days of leave are not charged, unless the Agreement mentions otherwise. From the fourth to the fifteenth day, it is the company that pays the benefits.
Subsequently, if the anxiety loss passes the 15 days, from the sixteenth day is managing entity of Social Security or Mutual who assume the payment of the benefit, depending on whether it is due to common illness or sick leave respectively.
