Maria Martinez
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Reuters World News · Japan quake, ICE children arrests and Johnson & Johnson talc deal · 28 Jul 2026
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Telephone signals would be scrapped and employers could require medical certificates from the first day of absence.
The government has been one year in power and when they finally presented these certificates,
package.
This was the most controversial point because everybody was mad, like basically the services union where they said that it was exemplifying a culture of mistrust towards workers.
Maria says the new policy may not address the root causes of sick days.
What we have seen now, speaking with researchers in different studies, is that actually there has been a sharp increase in mental health issues.
This is particularly high in certain sectors such as nursing, care work.
and teaching and what experts say is that actually this reform proposed by the government is not tackling the causes of these problems because we see that in these professions we have chronic understaffing, low pay and of course high emotional demands.
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