THE INFLUENCE OF DECREASED EMPLOYEE\u27S ABILITY TO WORK ON THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP

Zmožnost za delo se ugotavlja v okviru treh med seboj ločenih postopkov, in sicer v okviru varnosti in zdravja pri delu z namenom ugotavljanja zmožnosti za delo na delovnem mestu po pogodbi o zaposlitvi, v okviru obveznega zdravstvenega zavarovanja v zvezi z odreditvijo začasne zadržanosti z dela zaradi bolezni ter v okviru obveznega invalidskega zavarovanja v zvezi z ugotavljanjem invalidnosti. Kot še posebej problematičen se v praksi kaže postopek v okviru varnosti in zdravja pri delu, ko izvajalec medicine dela ugotovi delavčevo začasno zmanjšano zmožnost za delo. Izvajalec medicine dela lahko ugotovi, da je delavec zmožen le delno opravljati svoje delo na svojem delovnem mestu ali da lahko delavec sicer dela v svojem poklicu s polnim delovnim časom, vendar pa je v celoti nezmožen opravljati delo na delovnem mestu v skladu s pogodbo o zaposlitvi ali da je delavec nezmožen za delo, hkrati pa se lahko zgodi, da v teh primerih ni odrejena delna ali popolna zadržanost z dela zaradi bolezni. Če pride do tega, je delodajalec nesorazmerno (pretirano) finančno obremenjen, saj pravna ureditev teh primerov ne predvideva in ne ureja, pomanjkljivo pa ureja tudi sodelovanje med posameznimi specialisti medicine. Naloga se ukvarja z analizo veljavne pravne ureditve v zvezi z delavčevo zmožnostjo za delo, analizira postopke ugotavljanja zmožnosti za delo ter analizira in predlaga možne rešitve in ukrepe v omenjenih primerih.Ability to work is assessed within three separate procedures: within occupational health and safety with the purpose of assessing ability to work on the work post according to the employment agreement, within mandatory health insurance with regard to ordering sick leave and within mandatory disability insurance with regard to assessment of disability. The procedure within occupational health and safety is foremost problematic in the practice, in particular in situations where the occupational medicine provider establishes a temporarily decreased employee\u27s ability to work. The occupational medicine provider may establish that an employee is only partially able to perform work at his work post or that an employee is able to work in his vocation full-time, but is completely unable to work at his work post according to the employment agreement or that an employee is unable to work, however, it can happen in such cases that neither full nor partial sick leave is ordered. As a result, such employee\u27s employer has to bear a disproportionate (excessively high) financial burden, since such cases are not provided or regulated by lawmoreover, the cooperation between the respective specialists of medicine is not sufficiently regulated. The master thesis deals with the analysis of the current legal framework with regard to the employee’s ability to work, it contains analysis of the procedures for the assessment of ability to work and provides an analysis and offers proposals of possible solutions and measures in the mentioned cases