2016-09-15
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From August 31st to September 1st, 2016, the Secretariat of Social Security (Secretaria de Previdência), a component body of the Brazilian Ministry of Finance (Ministério da Fazenda – MF) held the “International Seminar: Management of Employment Termination Due to Incapacity or Disability: Integrated Social Security and Public Health Actions in Brazil and Italy” in Brasilia. The event was organised as part of the 8th Call of the EU-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Facility, a joint initiative of the of the European Union Delegation in Brazil (DELBRA) and the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Development and Management (Ministério do Planejamento, Desenvolvimento e Gestão – MP).
Asier Santillán, DELBRA’s Cooperation Attaché, noted at the event’s opening session that matters in connection with social security and employment have long had a central role in European Union policies. “The extensive efforts undertaken in the field of social rights grew out of social security and labour-related concerns. Indeed, social rights are at the very foundation of the European Community”, he said. Mr. Santillán went on to add that Brazil will benefit greatly from the exchange of experiences with Italy, one of the member States most actively engaged in the field.
Giovana Veloso, Acting Director of the Sector Dialogues Support Facility, praised the work of the Secretariat of Social Security, which initially joined the Project as part of the previous call and currently co-ordinates two actions, including the Seminar’s central discussion topic. Also participating in the event’s opening session were Marcelo Abi-Ramia Caetano, Secretary of Social Security of the Ministry of Finance, and César Augusto de Oliveira, Director of Worker Health at the National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social – INSS), a partner entity in the effort to develop policies to better manage employment termination due to incapacity or disability.
Objectives
Bruna Beck, a Social Policy Analyst at the Secretariat of Social Security and the initiative’s lead officer, reported that the goal is to collect a solid set of inputs to enhance the Brazilian model for managing employment termination due incapacity or disability based on the Italian experience and adoption of an integrated approach to this challenge: prevention, compensation/indemnification and reinsertion in the job market.
Michele Squeglia, a consultant and professor of Labour and Social Security Law contracted by the Sector Dialogues Support Facility, offered an overview of the Italian case. In a meeting held over a two-day period in the lead-up to the Seminar, the professor outlined the results of the technical studies prepared by the Secretariat of Social Security and the National Social Security Institute. “We were treated to a clinic on the Italian worker incapacity and disability system. It was highly productive”, said Ms Beck.
The purpose of the Seminar, in which Mr Squeglia took part as well, was to disseminate the study and the results of the Brazil-Italy collaboration effort to other federal government agencies, the academic community and the public at large. “We hope to develop policies increasingly targeted towards preventing accidents at work and rehabilitation programmes that allow individuals to return to work as quickly as possible, with the objective of ensuring the soundness of the social security system”, said Ms Beck.
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