SINDICATOS EUROPEUS LANÇAM TEXTO EM QUE REITERAM REIVINDICAÇÃO DE RECONHECIMENTO DA COVID-19 COMO DOENÇA RELACIONADA AO TRABALHO.
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Na Introdução:
"To date, 25 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Britain. There is growing data demonstrating exposure in the workplace is a significant source of Covid infection.
For many workers, carrying out their job puts them at greater risk of exposure to Covid-19, a virus which can cause ill-health effects for more than a year, and has been fatal for more than 15,000 people of working age in Britain1 . There is evidence from large workplace outbreaks that working at close proximity to others increases the risk of infection.
Exposure to Covid-19 at work risks long-term ill-health effects. One in 10 people with Covid-19 continue to experience symptoms beyond 12 weeks2 , posing a significant risk to their employment status and earning potential. Common symptoms of Long Covid include extreme tiredness, shortness of breath and memory problems. Experience of these symptoms can cause workers to require extended periods of sickness absence from work, or risk inability to perform job roles adequately or safely. Research by the TUC found that 20% of workers with Long Covid had seen a negative impact on their job security, including having to leave their job.3"
E mais adiante:
"How does a disease become prescribed?
The Social Security Contributions & Benefits Act 1992 allows ministers to prescribe a disease if they are satisfied that it can be caused by work and that such a link can be made with “reasonable certainty” in the individual claimant’s circumstances. This means it must be “more likely than not” that the disease is due to a person’s work.
The government is guided in this by scientific advice from the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC). The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) is an independent scientific advisory body that looks at industrial injuries benefit and how it is administered. IIAC considers published independent medical and scientific research, and makes recommendations to the Secretary of State to update the list of diseases and the occupations that cause them for which Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit can be paid. The Council’s role is to advise and make recommendations, but ultimately it is the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions who takes
the final decision about whether to implement a recommendation.
There are some diseases which only occur due to a particular occupation, for example pneumoconiosis among coal miners. There are also those which are almost always associated with work (such as asbestos-related cancer). According to IIAC, there are many other diseases for which their decision is ‘less clear-cut’. For example: “Problems arise over diseases that can also occur in the wider public, and not just because of a particular type of work. For example, lung cancer can be caused by asbestos, but is also caused by smoking, and can occasionally occur without an apparent cause. What makes things particularly difficult is that, for these diseases, there is no reliable way in an individual case to "
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