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UGT assures that the employee filed the criticism after falling down the steps whereas teleworking and struggling a fracture on the left aspect. The courtroom considers that the harm occurred “on the time and place of business, with out breaking the causal hyperlink between work and harm “The Spanish need to telework 3.8 days every week
UGT has assured this Wednesday in a press release, that the Social Court quantity 9 of Seville has upheld a declare from a employee, who requested {that a} fall he suffered down the steps in his house when he was going to get water be thought-about as a piece accident whereas teleworking. Something just like what occurred in Cáceres, when a lady stumbled in her hall.
According to the union, “the criticism was filed by this employee after falling down the steps on June 5, 2019, when he was teleworking and through working hours, on account of which he suffered a fracture on his left aspect,” the defendants being the entities managers INSS-TGSS (General Treasury of Social Security), Mutua Fraternidad Muprespa and the corporate.
The National Institute of Social Security (INSS) thought-about that there was no work accident, however after difficult mentioned determination, the courtroom “upheld the demand for a change in contingency by making use of article 156.1 of the General Law on Social Security and contemplating that the The harm occurred on the time and place of business, with out breaking the causal hyperlink between work and harm”.
“It needs to be famous that the accident occurred earlier than the promulgation of the present Remote Work Law, which reinforces the existence of a labor nexus when an accident happens in a teleworking scenario and the presumption of employment included in article 156.3 of the General Social Security Law”, the union factors out.