In the first six months in Montenegro, over 615 working days were lost due to sick leave, and those who used it were absent from work for an average of 96 days, which is 20 percent more compared to the same period last year, according to the Fund's data. of healthcare.
However, this year sick leave cost the state 15 percent less, because a significant number of old sick leaves were concluded.
Close to six and a half thousand employees were on sick leave until June 30, which is about ten percent less compared to the first half of last year, when slightly more than seven thousand two hundred workers were on sick leave. Thus, the costs of the Health Care Fund also decreased.
Director of the Fund, Vuk Kadić, said in Boje jutra on TV Vijesti this week that there was a large number of sick leave terminations, which had an impact on reducing costs, but that is not the only reason for lower expenses.
However, that reduction has come to an end. The average duration of sick leave increased by 20 percent, so from 80 days last year, 96 working days per employee were lost this year.
The Action for Social Justice draws attention to possible attempts to abuse sick leave, which were often a practice in the previous period, and believes that it is necessary to seek responsibility for old cases as well.
In the Fund, they state that they have not recorded longer sick leaves, which was the practice before, except for two lasting more than six years, where it is about mental diagnoses, which does not constitute abuse.
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