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ARTICLE · 22 MARCH 2020

Employment Issues Resulting From COVID-19 Outbreak – A Spanish Perspective

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The Royal Decree-Law 6/2020, of March 10, which adopts certain urgent economic measures for the protection of public health entered into force March 12, 2020, ...

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(i) Employee leave due to COVID-19 processed as occupational accident

The Royal Decree-Law 6/2020, of March 10, which adopts certain urgent economic measures for the protection of public health entered into force March 12, 2020, one day after the publication date in the Spanish Official Gazette.

According to the Fifth Article of the Royal Decree, coronavirus casualties will be equated with occupational accidents for the purposes of collecting social security benefits: 

"1. In order to protect public health, those periods of isolation or contagion of the workers provoked by the COVID-19 virus will be considered, exceptionally, a situation assimilated to an accident at work, exclusively for the benefit of the Social Security system for temporary disability,.(...)

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