The Córdoba Justice ordered a public services cooperative to provide health coverage, for at least one year, to an employee who was fired when he was undergoing rehabilitation treatment for his drug addiction, it was officially reported.
The measure was adopted by the Civil, Commercial, Conciliation, Family Court of 1st Nomination, of the city of Jesús María, at the request of a precautionary measure that the worker presented in the framework of a case initiated before a labor court for supposed “Discriminatory dismissal for health reasons” that he would have suffered due to his problems with the consumption of narcotics.
As reported by the provincial Judiciary, Judge Luis Belitzky’s ruling orders the employer cooperative to “provide health coverage under the same conditions as at the time of the dismissal, through the social work or prepaid medicine that it had “.
The measure established a one-year term for medical coveragebut clarified that “it can be extended if it corresponds in law”, and warned that An economic sanction will be applied if the company does not comply with the provisions.
The error also imposed on the former employee the obligation to prove monthly to the court the continuity of the treatmentwith a specific indication of its evolution, and underlined that if it is not done, the ordered medical coverage will be revoked.
By giving as accredited that the dismissed worker “suffers from an addiction to the consumption of prohibited substances and that, for that reason, he faced a therapeutic rehabilitation process”the judge held that the people who suffer from this problem “far from being punished for their behavior deserve, in addition to decent social treatment that allows them to reintegrate, effective and differential judicial protection that makes rehabilitation possible.”
He also argued that the rehabilitation treatment “involves an important expense in money for the indication of medications, hospitalizations, assistance and monitoring that the public health sector may not be able to afford.”
