Covid-19 Not Considered ’Occupational Disease’: Union Requests Cancellation of Circular - Bianet English
The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has requested the Social Security Institution (SGK) to cancel a circular that classified Covid-19 as a “disease” rather than an “occupational disease/workplace accident.”
The circular was against the Social Security and Universal Health Insurance Law No. 5510 and the Law on Occupational Health and Safety No. 6331, the DİSK said in a letter to the SGK.
The SGK’s circular dated May 8 states that healthcare provisions for the insured who are exposed to the Covid-19 outbreak should be for “disease,” citing the definition of sickness in Article 15 of the Law No. 5510:
Sicknesses of the insurance holder under items (a) and (b) of paragraph one of Article 4, other than work accident or occupational disease and which causes the incapacity to work in the individual are sickness statuses.
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