5th Conference on a Healthy and Effective Return to Work after Sick Leave due to Temporary Disability

The next Thursday 22 Maythe Miguel Hernández University (UMH) will host in the Board Room of the Valona Building the 5th Conference on a Healthy and Effective Return to Work after Temporary Disability (TI). This event, organised by the UGT-PV in collaboration with the Occupational Health Research Group SALUD-O of the UMH, aims to analyse, raise awareness and come up with effective proposals to improve the process of returning to work for people who have been temporarily incapacitated. The session can be followed in person or by internet. streaming.

Throughout the day, the importance of ensuring a safe and healthy return to the workplace will be discussed, not only from an individual health perspective, but as a structural challenge involving multiple actors. The organisation stresses that this is not an individual problem, nor is it exclusive to companies or workers, but a systemic challenge that requires coordinated responses between the Labour Authority, the Prevention Services, the Medical Inspectorate, the Social Security and the INSS. In this sense, the conference will encourage debate between all the actors involved on the basis of specific cases and real experiences, with a view to possible joint and viable solutions.

• Place: Sala de Juntas, Edificio Valona. Miguel Hernández University.
• Opening hours: from 9:00 to 14:00 h.
• Date: Thursday 22 May 2025

9:00 Opening

María Emma Benlloch Marco. Manager of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche

Cristina Estévez Navarro. Executive Secretariat with responsibilities for Employment and Social Security of the Confederal UGT

Borja Suárez Corujo. Secretary of State for Social Security and Pensions. Ministry of Social Inclusion, Social Security and Migration

PROGRESS ON RETURN TO WORK

9:30am Proposals of the Return to Work project

Marisa Baena Martínez. Deputy Secretary-General for public policy, occupational health, cooperation and environment

Beatriz Martín del Río. Director of the O-Health Research Group at UMH

10:00 Return to work: Analysis of expert opinion

Cristina López-Tello Aroca. Member of the UMH O-Health research group.

10:30 Return to Work: The Environment

José Rafael Lobato Cañón. Member of the Salud-O research group, UMH. Head of the EVI Medical Unit of the Provincial Directorate of the INSS in Alicante.

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30 Legal context and case law. Reform of automatic dismissal due to permanent disability.

Moderator: Ismael Senent Cartagena. Regional Secretary General of Muntanya-Vinalopó-Vega Baja of UGT-PV

Adrián Todolí Signes. Professor of Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Valencia. Graduate in Economics and Law

12:00 Practical experiences

Moderator: Pablo Esteban Torres. Coordinator of the Technical Offices of Occupational Health of UGT-PV

• Mar Reche Pérez. Specialist in Occupational Medicine of the Prevention Service of the Sociedad Agricultores de la Vega de Valencia (SAV).
• Pepe Femenía Carrió. Damel Group's technical manager for occupational risk prevention.
• Jesús Rodríguez Bernabé. Human Resources Representative
• Nasser Martínez Balaguer. UGT prevention delegate in Tempe, Inditex group.

COLLOQUIUM

13:30 New challenges and closing

Ismael Senent Cartagena. Regional Secretary General of Muntanya-Vinalopó-Vega Baja of UGT-PV

José Rafael Lobato Cañón. Member of the Salud-O research group, UMH. Head of the EVI Medical Unit of the Provincial Directorate of the INSS in Alicante.