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3. Working-level measures for sick leave management

Brokers selling fake sick books on the Internet are rampant, and many workers are using them to fake illnesses. There are many measures to prevent abuse of sick leave, but the most effective way of doing so is to reduce the amount of sick leave to the maximum.
The calculation formula for sick wages is not unified across the country and varies from region to region. The two factors that determine sick pay are the wage term 2 payment rate. Of these, how to do the "payment rate" is defined by local legislation in each region, which creates legal risks if a company violates it. However, how to set the "wage term" exists in a flexible way for the enterprise.

Most companies pay based on "basic pay," not ordinary wages. At this time, what turns into a labor dispute is not a short-term sick leave of days or weeks, but a long-term sick leave of more than a month. In this case, a labor dispute may arise with respect to the basis for payment of sick leave wages. Since the generous calculation of sick leave from the perspective of personalization management can lead to the abuse of sick leave due to the lack of Daewoo's regular business trip, the company needs to study ways to reduce the payment of sick leave as much as possible, and it is enough to make up for the difference even if a lawsuit arises from the difference in sick pay, so there is no need to be excessive legal correspondence.

[discussing the number of sick leave calculators in Shanghai court]
In late 2014, let's take a look at the debate on sick leave and overtime calculations in Shanghai City Court.
Discriminatory application standard for sick leave wages and overtime calculation machines
Number of hours paid for sick leave calculation and number of hours spent calculating overtime expenses
In case there is an agreement between labor and management (when the agreement between labor and management is concluded, etc.), the amount agreed upon by both parties shall be included in the same.
* The number of sick pay periods should be 70 percent or more of the normal work wage (the expected income of workers if they report to work normally) as agreed upon by both parties.
* If the agreed normal work wages of both parties are clearly unreasonable, calculate them as 70% of the net income.
In the absence of an agreement between labor and management, in the absence of an arrangement, in the absence of an arrangement, 70 percent of the normal working wage, or in the absence of an agreement, the actual wage standard for the workers is not clear.
(Note) Normal working wage: fixed monthly, excluding overtime or irregular bonuses
wages paid

As shown in the table above, the Shanghai District Court judges that there should be a clear distinction between the number of overtime pay calculations and the number of sick pay calculators that do not provide normal labor (the position that overtime pay should be applied more strictly than the number of sick pay periods).
If a labor-management agreement is made in advance and the amount is not lower than 70 percent of the total wage, the court shall not consider the labor dispute as a violation of the law. Even if there is no agreement, 70 percent of the actual normal wage is the number of sick leave wage calculators, which is not a violation in Shanghai. This is the judicial judgment standard in Shanghai, but other local-based companies may also be able to set up and operate sick wages at an appropriate level.
[Example] If the basic wage (or job pay, including key wage items such as job allowance) is about 70% of the normal monthly wage (excluding overtime expenses), the labor contract clearly states that "the term of the sick pay shall be paid."

Reasons for submitting employee false sick leave
If a worker avoids going to work due to various causes, or if there is a labor dispute with a company, the usual method is to submit a sick person. Reasons for submitting false or over-paved sick leave exist as follows:
ᄋ Suffering from the long-term disadvantages of personal request, personnel performance and year-end bonus, the medical institution submits the number of sick people instead
ᄋ Even though it is a small disease, it is over-paved as a major disease, so long-term rest from illness (especially in third-term women)
ᄋ In the event of a dispute with the company, a long-term sick person is paid to avoid going to work (sometimes aimed at obtaining economic compensation by inducing the company to lay off).
ᄋ Submit sick employees to receive notification of termination of labor contract and to receive medical equipment that cannot be fired for a certain period of time
ᄋ Payment of long-term sick leave and double-occupation with other jobs outside

[working-level measures]

If false sick leave is widespread in-house, it will lead to lax corporate regulations as well as lower productivity and higher labor costs. To prevent this, companies need to create and operate a standardized sick leave management system.

1 Limit of hospital issuing sick leave (most important)
The majority of Chinese companies are required to attach sick leave certificates issued by "the city’s second or current hospitals" or higher when submitting sick leave to employment rules, even those issued by third-grade hospitals. Otherwise, there is a possibility of easily issuing and submitting sick leave certificates through first-class hospitals or clinics in small, poorly managed neighborhoods.
In the case of large-scale factories with thousands of employees, a number of hospitals in the city are designated to submit sick leave certificates for examination. Depending on the size of the city, a designated hospital is also available for large cities. For smaller companies, it is necessary to clearly limit hospitals that issue sick leave certificates to second-class hospitals or medical insurance designated hospitals in cities where they are located.

Hospital Classification Criteria in China
ᄋ Class 1 Hospital (with less than 100 beds): In Korean terms, a health center, a clinic, and a small hospital
ᄋ Second-class hospitals (with a bed count of 101-500): Hospitals that perform comprehensive medical services
ᄋ Class 3 hospitals (501 beds or more): so-called general hospitals, university hospitals, etc.
** Class 3, 2 and 1 hospitals are again rated 3 according to the level in the same water supply.
Class 1 pack/sick/sick/sick/sick/sick

2 It is mandatory to attach relevant evidence to the application for sick leave (most important)
The application for sick leave [Sample 6-2] shall use a prescribed form containing the doctor’s name and telephone number, and shall be available for confirmation if necessary. In addition, for example, sick leave of two days or more is required to attach the medical leave certificate of one hospital to the application for sick leave of one day or more to prevent abuse of sick leave.
Medical registration card, medical record card, medical expenses receipt, etc.

Attachment of evidence shall not be approved for sick leave, but shall be deemed to be a personal request price and treated as unpaid If the company refuses to submit a written request for a sick leave, it shall be treated as an unauthorized leave of absence, send a letter of notice to work in writing, and if it fails to comply with the company's employment rules, the company shall take measures to cancel the contract.
In particular, it is mandatory to issue an official receipt, such as a pharmacy issued by a hospital, when an employee is on sick leave for more than a certain period of time (e.g., more than five days) in order to prevent the employee from repeatedly submitting sick leave or suddenly requiring long-term leave. Since the official receipt is printed on the printer, the company can go to the hospital on the basis of which both the person's name and time exist.

3 Strict procedures for screening of sick leave
Depending on the number of sick days, senior citizens, personnel managers, and even general accounting, the payments are made in stages.
The institution thoroughly checks if the requirement is met when submitting by long-term hospital staff, as it stipulates that the approval procedure is carried out. For example, approval of a department manager who has been on sick leave for three days, approval of personnel affairs for five days or more, and approval of general account for seven days or more.
It is desirable to divide sick leave into two types for the convenience of the entity’s labor management.
(a) within 30 days: short sick leave;
(b) Over 30 days: long sick leave
In case of long-term sick leave, the medical device is also required to be re-examined at the company-designated hospital, if necessary.
Upon written notice, the medical institution shall take measures to terminate the labor contract if the medical institution fails to return even after the expiration of the medical institution.

4 Specify the authority to review sick leave of the company
In China, the issuance of sick leave certificates issued by brokers is common. Therefore, if the company raises reasonable doubts on the sick leave certificate submitted by the employee, the employment rules shall state the right to require the employee to go to the company-designated hospital for a re-examination.
The main targets of the re-examination include the submission of sick leave several times on a weekly or two-week basis, the submission of excessively long-term sick leave (certificate of sick leave for more than one month) or the submission of suspicious sick leave at the time of labor dispute with the company.

5 The employment rules stipulate punishment for false patients
The employment rules stipulate the punishment rules for false diseases, and the corresponding regulations are based on them.
take punitive measures For example, the act of submitting false sick leave is a serious violation of the company's rule system and specifies that labor contracts can be lifted.

6 Rational reduction of sick pay
If medical care is good, income that is not much different from normal business trips is maintained, so it is more likely to happen, such as deliberately submitting a false hospital, making a small bottle into a large bottle, or taking long-term sick leave and holding a concurrent job elsewhere. Therefore, it is desirable to create a wage structure so that the longer the sick leave, the less wage income.

ᄋ By changing the single wage structure of "basic pay + allowance", the proportion of other items is reduced and the resulting variable bonus items are expanded (if there are no existing items, new items are newly created and part of the wage increase is allocated).
Decrease or cancel performance bonus if monthly sick leave exceeds a certain number of days
ᄋ In connection with the annual absenteeism and tardiness situation (the number of days for which the medical leave is extended), the year-end bonus shall be paid by reducing the proportion of the employee with a long period of sick leave to a certain percentage corresponding to the period of sick leave, rather than paying a fixed amount to all employees
ᄋ The employment rules state that if the sick leave period reaches a long period of time, the employee will not be subject to wage hikes. For example, for those who have accumulated more than one month per year, they are not eligible for regular wage increases.

2. Wage for sick leave

(1) Rules for calculation of sick wages

The sick leave consists of two parts: the sick leave wage term and the sick leave wage ratio. During the period of sick leave, the employee does not provide normal labor, so sick wages should be naturally lower than normal wage levels. Therefore, calculate the sick rate by discounting it twice as shown below.

Calculation formula: sick leave wage term (base) × sick leave wage ratio

1 Number of sick leave wage terms: the number of sick leave wage terms, for example, "basic salary," etc.
In the case of a calculation, the number of units (bases) becomes the agreed wage item, not the entire wage. therefore
Focusing on major fixed wage items, excluding allowances, subsidies, and performance benefits, on labor contracts
It is desirable to make an agreement on the number of sick pay periods.
2 The rate of sick pay varies somewhat from region to region, but most regions have a percentage depending on the number of years of service.
be set at a different level The sick leave period will be six months on the alert, and the payment ratio will be lowered.
[Wage for sick leave] = (Number of sick leave wage calculators (基数)2121.75) × rate of sick leave × days of sick leave

(2) Applying the combination of national unification and local rules;

The rules for the payment of sick wages exist throughout the country, and if there are no local rules, the national unification rules will be enforced nationwide.
Only unified rules apply, but if local rules are present, central and local rules are applied at the same time.

1 National Unification Rule - stipulate the minimum minimum wage limit for sick leave only
The minimum wage for sick leave is 80 percent of the minimum wage for the country. That is, sick leave is not an option.
It should be more than 80 percent of the minimum wage.

[A little bit of a question on the enforcement of Labor Law]
Article59 In cases where a worker is in the treatment period due to illness or non-work injury, in the case of a prescribed medical period, the entity shall pay sick leave wages or disease relief expenses in accordance with the relevant regulations, and the sick leave wage or disease relief cost may be lower than the local minimum wage standard, but cannot be lower than 80 per cent of the minimum wage standard.

2 Local rules - specifically stipulate how sick wages are calculated
Various local gender laws stipulating how to set up sick leave wage terms and the rate of sick leave wage rates in each province
As the entity operates (eg wage payment ordinance, etc.) and so on, the entity identifies the relevant rules of location.
need of
Among the local sick leave rules, Beijing is the most favorable to business. In the city of Beijing, one can make an agreement on the number of sick pay periods in labor contracts and execute them by lowering the minimum wage by up to 80 percent, regardless of the high wages of one's own.
The majority of provinces except Beijing have stipulated that sick wages should be paid by multiplying the rate of payment by the length of time and years of service. Therefore, in order to reduce the number of sick pay periods (bases) as much as possible, the government should study ways to curb the level of sick pay by dividing wages into basic pay, performance pay, and allowances, and making arrangements for the period of sick leave pay as basic pay.

(3) Three types of sick leave pay by region

1 Based on the employee's years of service and wages, a certain percentage is paid (injury, reduced intensity, etc.)

This method is based on the draft Tax Regulations for Labor Insurance Regulations (1953), which stipulates that a certain proportion of one’s wages should be paid according to the number of years of service, and the higher the number of years of service, the higher the rate of sick pay. It is important to note that although the large frameworks are similar, they create independent regulations that vary from region to region and apply the criteria differently.

[Case - Injury City]

Number of sick leave wage terms (one discount) 병 rate of sick leave wage (second discount)

(1) First discount rule: Number of days of sick leave wage
The number of sick leave wage calculators can be agreed on the labor contract. The basis for the arrangement of calculation instruments means the predictable income acquired from normal commuting (including one-time or temporary income) and should not be lower than the 70 per cent criterion. If the two parties do not agree on the number of sick leave wage calculators, the calculation period of sick leave wages shall be determined on the basis of the above-mentioned normal commuting wage 70% 70 per cent.
(2) Second discount rule: rate of sick leave wages
The proportion of sick pay depends on the length of the employee's sick leave and the length of his or her years of service. Generally, the longer the period of sick leave and the shorter the service life, the lower the rate of sick leave wage.
Rate of payment of sick leave in case of injury
Percentage of payment in comparison to the number of years of service calculation for the company per sick leave
Within six months...
Disease leave payment
(疾病休假工资) 60% less than 2 years
70 percent in less than two or four years.
Over four years, less than six years, 80 percent.
Over 6 years, less than 8 years, 90%.
100% over 8 years
Over 6 Months--
Disease relief payment
(疾病救济费) 40% less than 1 year
50% less than 3 years over 1 year
60% over 3 years

(3) Upper/lower limit of sick leave wage
ᄋ Upper limit on sick leave wages: Monthly average wage for the previous year in case of injury (15: 5939元)
ᄋ Minimum minimum wage for sick leave: 80% of the minimum wage in case of injury (after the principal burden social insurance, kitchen utilities deduction)

2 Based on employee wages, a certain percentage is paid (Sandongseong, Shenzhen, Seomseoseong, etc.)

A typical model of this approach requires that 70 percent of one’s wages be paid as "bottlenecks" if the period of sick leave is less than six months, and 60 percent of one’s wages as "disease relief" if it is more than six months. In addition to Shandong Province, Shenzhen City and Seomseo Castle are also applying this method. In order to lower the number of "main wages," it is necessary to make a monthly commitment to major fixed items such as "basic pay" in labor contracts and employment rules.
He pays 60% of his wages for sick leave.
Simcheon City Employee Payment Ordinance, December 2004
Seventy percent of the promised wages for labor contracts are paid as sick wages.
Island Business Payment Ordinance, Inc.

3 Payment in accordance with the agreement of labor contract (North Gyeongsang, Kang So-sung, etc.)

The representative model of this method is Beijing and Kang So-sung, which is stipulated to pay sick wages according to the agreement of the labor contract. In other words, it is allowed to make an agreement between labor and management on the labor contract and implement it based on the assumption that the lower limit of sick wages (80 per cent of the minimum wage) stipulated by the national law is complied with.

[Wage payment regulations in the relevant provinces]
Article21 In the period during which a worker is on sick leave due to illness or non-work injury, the user shall pay the sick leave allowance in a lump sum on the basis of the agreement of the labor contract or collective contract. The sick leave paid by the user should not be lower than 80 per cent of the minimum wage standard in this city.
Article27 During the medical period prescribed by the State, sick wages shall be paid according to the provisions of the company's salary distribution system, labor contracts, collective contracts or relevant regulations of the State, and shall not be lower than 80 per cent of the minimum wage of the company's location.

03 Care of sick leave

One of the most complicated and difficult areas of Chinese labor law is the issue of sick leave. In particular, problems such as long-term sick leave due to illness and injury, how to calculate the medical period, and how to pay sick leave wages during the period of sick leave have no clear criteria across China and are operated differently by provinces.
In China, the payment of sick leave wages is mandatory even during the period of sick leave, and it is not possible to lay off the medical plane during the period of employment protection, so there are frequent cases of abuse of sick leave such as false disease and fake illness. Therefore, companies need to take measures to prevent abuse of sick leave.

1. Concepts of medical devices

(1) Understanding medical devices

If an employee is absent from work for reasons unrelated to his or her work, the employee shall apply for sick leave to the company by attaching a doctor's certificate, and the company shall grant" sick leave" if the employee complies with the sick leave conditions. In case of a disease or injury that requires months of long-term care, the company cannot wait until it is fully recovered indefinitely, although an employee may need a period of employment guarantee to be treated with confidence. In order to reconcile these conflicting interests between labor and management, there is an unfamiliar rule for us called "medical period."
Medical devices are not "duration of care," but "enjoying legal rights to care" by employees.
Means the period. During this period, the company cannot unilaterally terminate the labor contract, and the period is
Even if the labor contract expires within the period, the contract expiration date is automatically deferred until the end of the medical period.
However, even during this period, the lifting of disciplinary action due to the negligence of workers (Article 39 of the Labor Contract Act) and
The lifting of the mutual agreement (article 36) is possible.

the difference between sick leave and medical equipment
"Sick leave" and "medical machine" have different personalities. "Sick leave" is the period during which a worker is suspended and treated with the approval of the company, with the approval of the company, the period varies according to the condition, and is a kind of physiological concept. On the other hand, the "medical machine" is a legal concept, and the medical period is a worker.
The period of employment is defined according to the years of service, and the period of employment is protected according to the regulations.

Criteria for setting up medical devices
When an employee ceases to work and receives treatment, he or she is granted medical equipment ranging from three to two to four months depending on the number of years of service (Article 3 of the Regulations for Medical Periods due to Corporate Work Disease or Non-Work Injury) in 1994.

(2) Criteria for setting up medical devices

The length of the medical period depends on the employee's service life. In accordance with the above provisions, common national medical period standards are applied, but in the case of Shanghai, it is important to note that independent medical period regulations are promulgated and independent calculation methods are employed.

1 Common medical device setup across the country

The national common "medical instrument" setup standard stipulates that not only one's own company but also another's service years are combined. 1 The "Tongsan Service Years," including the years of service of the company in which I worked in the past, and 2 The "Medical Machines" are calculated on two axes. Employees' past service years in the company are responsible for proof, and the company does not need to accept claims of years of service that have not been clearly identified by social insurance payment records.

National Commercial Medical Instruments Standards (Shanghai is subject to separate rules)
third-party
Calculation cycle of "Total Service Years" in this company for the legal period of medical care
Less than five years, three months and six months
More than five years, six months, 12 months.
10 years or less, 6 months and 12 months
not more than five years, not more than ten years, nine months, and fifteen months.
For more than 10 years, 15 years, 12 months, 18 months.
18 months and 24 months, 15 years or less.
More than 20 years, 24 months and 30 months.

calculation of medical instruments
If an employee is on sick leave and continues to receive treatment without going to work, the medical device is terminated at the expiration of the applicable medical deadline. However, if the employee is treated repeatedly and is on a regular basis, the medical device calculation is calculated as a cumulative number of sick leave within a given medical device’s computation cycle. In other words, if the legal medical period is three months, the medical instrument calculation cycle is given six months, during which the medical device expires at a time when the accumulated number of sick days reaches three months.

[Method of calculation of medical instruments]
1 Determining the legal medical period based on the number of years of service
2 Determining the "calculation cycle" based on the medical period
3 The accumulated number of sick days within the "calculation cycle" determined in paragraph 2 above confirms the maturity of the medical device.

After the calculation cycle has passed without exceeding the legal period, the acquired "medical instrument" is reset and, in the event of a disease or injury, a new "medical instrument" can be acquired. For example, if a medical care period of three months was granted as a six-month calculation cycle, and the medical care period used as a cumulative period is 2 months and 29 days, and the calculation cycle of the six-month period has elapsed, and the disease and injury occur again at any point since then, again, six-month calculation cycle and within that cycle.
The medical care period is given three months.

[Example] In case sick leave starts on March 1, 2008 and medical equipment is 3 months and calculation cycle is 6 months
ᄋ If you have applied for consecutive sick leave without going to work: medical flight expiry on June 1, 2008
ᄋ If sick leave and rush hours are repeated on a regular basis: The medical period expires on September 1, 2008 when the accumulated time of sick leave exceeds 90 days

extension of medical instruments
For employees with some special diseases (cancer, mental illness, and hemiplegia), it is possible to extend the medical deadline appropriately after 24 months of inactivity and ratification by the corporation and the local labor bureau. However, the company has the right not to approve the agreement, as it only stipulates "possible" on the condition of ratification by the Company and the Bureau of Labor, and is not legally enforced (in the event of "corporate occupational disease or non-commercial injury).
Notice on the Pipeline of the Medical Term Regulations, 劳部发[1995]236].

2 Method of setting the medical period in case of injury (only applicable to companies with materials in case of injury)

The city of Shanghai is employing its own "medical period" calculation method. In the case of Shanghai, it is considered unreasonable to calculate the combined service life of another company and only calculates medical instruments based on the number of years worked by this company (Rules on the Standards of Medical Devices in the event of a disease or non-commercial injury during the period of the performance of the labor contract, 15[2015]).