Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees: A comparison of nine north-western European countries.

ABSTRACT: The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of social protection systems, including income security, when health problems arise. The aims of this study are to compare the follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees across nine European countries, and to conduct a qualitative assessment of the differences with respect to burden and responsibility sharing between the social protection system, employers and employees. The tendency highlighted is that countries with shorter employer periods of sick-pay typically have stricter follow-up responsibility for employers because, in practice, they become gatekeepers of the public sickness benefit scheme. In Germany and the UK, employers have few requirements for follow-up compared with the Nordic countries because they bear most of the costs of

SUBMITTER: Ose SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9085445 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature