Poland to postpone electronic sick-leave notes: official
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
20.04.2018 12:12
Poland’s social policy minister on Friday signalled her country would postpone plans to scrap traditional sick leave certificates by five months.
Elżbieta Rafalska (right). Photo: PAP/Bartłomiej Zborowski
Under current regulations, doctors in Poland will have to issue sick leave certificates electronically, while traditional sick notes written on paper will be scrapped.
The original deadline for the move was set for July 1.
But the new law has met with criticism from the medical profession, with some worried that older doctors will find it a struggle to use the new technology.
Elżbieta Rafalska, Poland’s Family, Labour and Social Policy Minister, said on Friday: "We want to propose a postponement ... to December 1, 2018."
Sick leave certificates in electronic form were first introduced two years ago.
Rafalska said that doctors were issuing more sick notes in electronic form, but added that there were still regions of Poland where the proportion of such sick notes was relatively small.
(pk/gs)
Source: PAP