Self-employed worker, you also can be sick person
It can Utopian sonar, but yes, if are freelance also have right to catch your days on sick leave in the event of illness or accident. A certain is that when are freelance and they start symptoms of feverish think in the devastating consequences that will involve to happen some days incubating. But you should not fret, because the same as all worker, have right to it.
However you, you must fulfill certain requirements in order to be able to enjoy the temporary cancellation. We explain it to you:
- In order to be able to enjoy your cancellation must be registered in the RETA (Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers) and to carry out payments to the Social Security Institute.
- In the event of common illness might have had to quote a minimum of 180 days in the latest ones 5 years.
In addition, you should present a document explaining who will see to your business in your absence or, in the case of not delegating your position to nobody, you should notify the temporary close or definitive of your company.
The term to present it is 15 days with respect to the date of the cancellation. The amount that receive will depend on the contribution basis corresponding to the previous month to the one of the divided cancellation between 30. The total also will depend on the days that are of cancellation. For example, between 0 and 3 days your provision will be 0 €; between 4 and 20 days will be of 60% and starting from 21 of 75%. If which you have that took place is a work-related injury the provision will be of 75% from the beginning.
Chooses your contribution basis
It is a big decision since your provision will depend on your contribution basis. In fact, your retirement pension also will depend on her which is why it is a decision that it is necessary to think carefully. The most part of self-employed workers choose the minimum contribution. Many it do without taking into account consequences that this supposes; other because they can not afford to pay a higher fare.
There are two different cases for temporary disability:
- TEMPORARY DISABILITY because of occupational disease or work-related injury: it is completely related to our activity at work. To calculate the provision 75% of the contribution basis of the cancellation's day later is applied. To enjoy the provision the self-employed worker must be registered in contigencia professional.
- TEMPORARY DISABILITY for common illness: in this case the amount will be calculated with 60% of the contribution basis starting from on the 4th until 20. Below, will happen at 75%.
What happens if I want to have a son?
In this case, the weeks to be enjoyed are the same that those of employees. The first six weeks will be compulsory, from a total of 16. After those six weeks can yield them to him to the father, that it should fulfill some specific requirements. In the case of parental leave, the self-employed worker a day should have its social security contributions and to present the model of activity statement within the first 15 days on sick leave.