Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees:A comparison of nine north-western European countries
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...
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ftalborgunivpubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/1850efef-4b89-4ea6-ab9e-85d04fd34ad5 2024-10-13T14:08:29+00:00 Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees:A comparison of nine north-western European countries Ose, Solveig Osborg Kaspersen, Silje Lill Leinonen, Taina Verstappen, Suzanne de Rijk, Angelique Spasova, Slavina Hultqvist, Sara Nørup, Iben Pálsson, Jón R. Blume, Andreas Paternoga, Mike Kalseth, Jorid 2022-07 application/pdf https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/1850efef-4b89-4ea6-ab9e-85d04fd34ad5 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.05.002 https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/files/474994539/1_s2.0_S016885102200104X_main.pdf http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130348709&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/1850efef-4b89-4ea6-ab9e-85d04fd34ad5 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Ose , S O , Kaspersen , S L , Leinonen , T , Verstappen , S , de Rijk , A , Spasova , S , Hultqvist , S , Nørup , I , Pálsson , J R , Blume , A , Paternoga , M & Kalseth , J 2022 , ' Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees : A comparison of nine north-western European countries ' , Health Policy , vol. 126 , no. 7 , pp. 619-631 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.05.002 comparative study European countries sick-pay sickness absenteeism sickness benefit COVID-19 Pandemics Follow-Up Studies Employment Humans Sick Leave article 2022 ftalborgunivpubl https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.05.002 2024-09-19T00:52:42Z 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 sickness absence themselves. The same applies in Iceland, where employers carry most of the costs and have no obligation to follow up sick-listed employees. The situation in the Netherlands is paradoxical: employers have strict obligations in the follow-up regime even though they cover all the costs of the sick-leave themselves. During the pandemic, the majority of countries have adjusted their sick-pay system and increased coverage to reduce the risk of spreading Covid-19 because employees are going to work sick or when they should self-quarantine, except for the Netherlands and Belgium, which considered that the current schemes were already sufficient to reduce that risk. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Aalborg University's Research Portal Health Policy 126 7 619 631 |
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comparative study European countries sick-pay sickness absenteeism sickness benefit COVID-19 Pandemics Follow-Up Studies Employment Humans Sick Leave Ose, Solveig Osborg Kaspersen, Silje Lill Leinonen, Taina Verstappen, Suzanne de Rijk, Angelique Spasova, Slavina Hultqvist, Sara Nørup, Iben Pálsson, Jón R. Blume, Andreas Paternoga, Mike Kalseth, Jorid Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees:A comparison of nine north-western European countries |
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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 sickness absence themselves. The same applies in Iceland, where employers carry most of the costs and have no obligation to follow up sick-listed employees. The situation in the Netherlands is paradoxical: employers have strict obligations in the follow-up regime even though they cover all the costs of the sick-leave themselves. During the pandemic, the majority of countries have adjusted their sick-pay system and increased coverage to reduce the risk of spreading Covid-19 because employees are going to work sick or when they should self-quarantine, except for the Netherlands and Belgium, which considered that the current schemes were already sufficient to reduce that risk. |
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Ose, Solveig Osborg Kaspersen, Silje Lill Leinonen, Taina Verstappen, Suzanne de Rijk, Angelique Spasova, Slavina Hultqvist, Sara Nørup, Iben Pálsson, Jón R. Blume, Andreas Paternoga, Mike Kalseth, Jorid |
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Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees:A comparison of nine north-western European countries |
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Ose , S O , Kaspersen , S L , Leinonen , T , Verstappen , S , de Rijk , A , Spasova , S , Hultqvist , S , Nørup , I , Pálsson , J R , Blume , A , Paternoga , M & Kalseth , J 2022 , ' Follow-up regimes for sick-listed employees : A comparison of nine north-western European countries ' , Health Policy , vol. 126 , no. 7 , pp. 619-631 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.05.002 |
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