Several of you got in touch with Generation 2004, concerned about difficulties in accessing your own medical files. You have the right to verify, modify or delete your administrative data, all you have to do is ‘apply to the Head of the Medical Service … The results of medical examinations and the diagnosis cannot be altered, but you may add your own comments.’ (Point 5, Information note on data protection, 2017). Continue reading Your medical file and your rights
Newsletter – 2021-09-20
Medical reservation = discrimination against persons with disabilities (long read)
The medical reservation rules and their implementation: how well do they fit with the prohibition of discrimination against persons with disabilities and the current HR drive for diversity and inclusion [1]?
The pre-recruitment medical: excluding those with disabilities?
Continue reading Medical reservation = discrimination against persons with disabilities (long read)
Sickness during annual leave: act fast and recover the days!
*Update 03.01.2023 additional information added (footnote 4) on sick leave away from the place of employment.**Update 18.12.2022: Having struggled to find the correct email addresses to send a sickness certificate or declare an accident, we have found using PMO Mobile 2.0 on a smart phone to be a bit more user friendly.* If you are sick during your annual leave it is possible to have those days credited to your sysper quota but the rules are different from those for being at work and the deadlines are tighter [1]
You require a certificate from the first day and must inform the medical service and send the certificate within 48 hours.
Continue reading Sickness during annual leave: act fast and recover the days!
Annual medical check-up: back to (socially distanced) normal
*update 12.10.2021: Still no annual medical service visits in Brussels, in spite of the information available on the staff matters website. We understand the process is currently still to go via your own doctor.*
*update 27.09.2021 the JSIS welcome offices have reopened.*
*update 20.09.2021 Brussels: we have contacted the medical service about the e-agenda being deactivated, we will update this when we have more information, thanks to all of you who got in touch!* Continue reading Annual medical check-up: back to (socially distanced) normal
