Petrović, Mila (2022) Legal status of employees with disabilities caused by work injuries or occupational diseases in the Republic of Serbia – last among equals? In: Ukrštena diskriminacija žena i devojčica sa invaliditetom i instrumenti za njihovo osnaživanje = Intersectional discrimination of women and girls with disabilities and means of their empowerment / Ljubinka Kovačević, Dragica Vujadinović, Marco Evola (ur./. Pravni fakultet Univerziteta, Centar za izdavaštvo, Beograd, pp. 507-529. ISBN 978-86-6132-040-8
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This paper deals with the status of the employees whose health was impaired due to a work injury or due to an occupational disease. It is a notorious fact namely, that people whose health is impaired and who, because of that, are incapable to work to a certain extent (totally or in part), have to face some smaller or greater difficulties on a day to day basis. Those persons who are totally incapable for work in the Republic of Serbia, in that sense, depend on the functionality of the social insurance system. This therefore calls for an adequate social insurance policy of the state. On the other hand, those persons in the Republic of Serbia whose work incapacity is partial, find themselves in a position which implies them facing different obstacles at the labour market. The latter being the constant struggle to acquire the status of an employed person, as well as the struggle to mantain such a status without further consequences to their health or their work capacity. These struggles, however, are the kind of struggles that cannot and should not be entirely left to these persons. That is why it is up to the state to put them in a position that is relatively similar to that of the other persons. Whether the Republic of Serbia has succeeded in that, or whether it is another one in a series of omissions by the Serbian legislator (which also goes for the matter of functionality of the social insurance system), is a question to which this paper should provide certain answers. From the gender perspective this paper is, however, also particularly relevant due to the newly emerged situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Women represent a predominant part of the frontline work force within the healthcare, as well as the social protection and trade activities. Those activities however, it is a notorious fact, also imply high risk of an infection, thus making these women more prone to contagion, and at an increased risk of facing the consequences of the COVID-19 disease (some sort of disability being one of them). We’ll, therefore, in part, also explore how can the current situation in Serbian legislative potentially affect them in this respect, in these unusual times.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | COBISS.SR-ID 110905865 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | The Republic of Serbia; Work injury; Occupational disease; Disability; Discrimination. |
| Subjects: | Law (General) |
| Depositing User: | Mr Stanko Kovačić |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Dec 2023 14:57 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Dec 2023 08:14 |
| URI: | http://repozitorijum.pravnifakultet.edu.rs/id/eprint/895 |
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