The Galician Inter-Union Confederation (CIG) has denounced Social Security before the Data Protection Agency and before the representative bodies of the INSS, for “violation of data protection” of women when they take sick leave due to disabling menstruationtermination (voluntary or not) of pregnancy and full-term pregnancies.
This was stated this Thursday in a press conference, held at the union’s headquarters in Santiago, by the Confederal Secretary of Mulleres of the CIG, Nicolasa Castro, and the Confederal Secretary of Organization, Susana Méndez.
As they have explained, the Social Security “informs the companies” of the reasons for women’s leave when they occur due to these situations.
The union has been made aware of this circumstance by an affected womanaffiliated with the association, which has discovered that both the company and the agency with which it works “were aware” that it had undergone an abortion.
This “violation” of data protection regulations and the worker’s right to privacy occurs after modifications to the law relating to sexual and reproductive health and voluntary termination of pregnancy.