Employers owe employees who are disabled as a result of illness or an accident full wages or partial wages for the first 30 days, the so-called guaranteed wages.

This obligation gives employers the right to have the reality and duration of the incapacity for work checked by a doctor. In some cases, employees are even obliged to stay at home to allow the examining doctor to visit them.

We provide information and advice on matters such as

- the obligations of the employee regarding notification of incapacity for work and submission of a medical certificate

- the possible reactions of the employer in case of failure or delay in reporting or submitting a medical certificate

- the rights and obligations of the examining doctor and the incapacitated employee

- the effect of interruptions in the employee’s incapacity for work on the period during which guaranteed pay is due

- the calculation of the guaranteed wages

- the impact of incapacity for work on the possibilities of dismissal or resignation

- the possibility or impossibility of relying on medical force majeure.