Page 6 - IDEA Studie 1 2022 Dopady karencni doby

NEMOCENSKÉ POJIŠTĚNÍ: CO ZPŮSOBILO ZAVEDENÍ KARENČNÍ DOBY IDEA 2022 • Despite this reduction in sick leave taken and sick pay claimed, there is no reason to assume that the new waiting period increased flu transmission or increased contagion in the workplace, since the reduction in sick leave was offset by an increase in other types of absences. • The extent to which sick leave was replaced by paid holiday or unpaid leave varied between employee groups. Mothers took fewer days of sick leave after the introduction of the waiting period, but this was offset by fathers taking more paid and unpaid leave. Employees exposed to a relatively higher risk of infection at the workplace or whose work involved more frequent social interaction replaced sick leave with other types of absence more often than other workers. • The available data do not enable us to reliably verify whether the waiting period succeeded in reducing abuse of the sickness benefit system, which was one of the reform’s main objectives. 4