The average sick leave in Madrid is situated in 26 days.

Madrid, November of 2011- the people of Madrid are an average of 26,65 days per year of decline due to disease or common accident, while disabled for work, according to data published by the addition of mutual’s work and professional diseases of the Social Security (MATEPSS), are data accumulated up to the month of August. This amount represents a decrease of 3.61% in the number of fatalities recorded last year by this entity.

The community of Madrid is situated as well as the penultimate community in number of days of low consumed, and is placed behind Navarre, who appears as the community with fewer work days lost by common contingency, with 22,98.

In the community of Madrid the monthly average number of processes started in this period is 51.462, which is why it is positioned as the first community in number of experienced contingencies, followed by Catalonia, with 47.844.

On the other hand, according to this statistics, men are low 23,76 days on average per year, while women do 29,24, which represents a % 23,06 more.

The law medical group offers this data because it takes since 1978 fighting for the rights of those suffering from a medical condition which prevents them from working, because that is the only Center in Spain in offering technical, medical and legal advice to ensure a favorable outcome in the processing of Social security pensionsat the time that the temporary disability becomes permanent disability.