inability to work

Medical evidence that demonstrates the applicant's inability to work is required.

The mean duration of inability to work was significantly lower in the EPs group (6.9 days) compared with the placebo group (8.2 days).

During the first 15 days the worker's salary is paid by the employer and after that by the INSS, as long as the inability to work lasts.

"Employers, whose workers are unable to work for longer than 6 weeks during a year, are to analyze, how the inability to work can, if possible, be overcome and with what assistance inability to work can be prevented and the job retained.