ACCIDENTS AT WORK AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
protection after terminating functions
(Social Security General Scheme)
» Protection at accidents at work that is maintained after termination of the public employment legal relationship
Note
At accidents at work, the public employees affiliated to the Social Security General Sheme are covered by the Convergent Social Protection Scheme
» Protection at occupational diseases that is maintained after the termination of the public employment legal relationship
» The right to protection and redress the damage arising from accidents at work and occupational diseases are based on the employer ‘s principle of objective responsibility, not expiring with the employment legal relationship termination:
- if the discharge has not been previously certified, under the terms provided for in the law, the right to all benefits applicable shall be maintained
- If the discharge has already been certified, the right to some benefits shall be maintained
- if the disease is only manifested after the termination of the employment legal relationship
» Benefits granted have an indemnity nature
» Protection’s benefits
Benefits in kind
» Of a medical, surgical, nursing, hospital, medicinal, thermal treatments, physiotherapy, prostheses and orthoses nature and other forms necessary and appropriate to the diagnosis or to the mental or physical health state recovery and the capacity for work or of gain of the injured/sick person and to his/her recovery for active life
» Transport and stay
» Professional re-integration, appropriate to temporary incapacity situations for work and to permanent incapacity
Benefits in cash
» Allowance substitutive of the compensation’s loss in the period of absences to the service
» Third person assistance allowance
» Indemnity, in capital or lifetime pension, in the case of permanent incapacity
» Housing readaptation allowance
» High incapacity situation allowance
» In case of death :
- payment for funeral expenses
- death’s allowance
- pension to family members
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