Excessive sick leaves for non-professional illnesses are, from one year to the other, slightly but constantly rising in Poland. That is what the ZUS (the Polish social security) revealed in its 2006 report, which has just been published. From January to December 2006, ZUS' doctors controlled 279,000 sick people. On this total number, 27,000 employees on a sick leave were "falsely ill" and had beneficiated from fake medical certificates. (Ref. 070153)
According to ZUS’ report, three main “categories” of employees chose fraud: those who do not want to work, those who thus want to push back the validness of a layoff letter, and the enthusiasts of illegal work, very common in Poland. “Of course, the law enables social security to control leaves for non-professional illnesses. These controls are initiated by our own doctors, in large and small companies. However, in companies with over 20 employees, they can also intervene at the employer’s requ
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