26.05.2022
DO I NEED MEDICAL TREATMENT WHEN CHANGING JOBS?
According to Art. 2, para. 1 of Ordinance № 3 of 28.02.1987, the following are subject to mandatory preliminary medical examination: persons entering work for the first time; persons who transfer to another job in the same or in another enterprise, which is related to harmful factors and risk of occupational disabilities; persons who have terminated their employment for more than three months. In these cases, the person starting work must present a card for a preliminary medical examination.
Pursuant to Art. 287, para. 1 of the Labor Code, all employees are subject to mandatory preliminary and periodic medical examinations. The conditions for performing preliminary and periodic examinations according to the nature of work, working conditions and age of employees are defined in Ordinance № 3 of 28.02.1987 on mandatory preliminary and periodic medical examinations of employees.
The official requirement and submission of the files between the services is regulated in Art. 17, para. 1 of Ordinance № 3 of 25.01.2008 on the conditions and procedure for carrying out the activity of the occupational medicine services (promulgated, SG No. 14 of 12.02.2008).
According to item 1 of the cited provision, the health files of the employees are transmitted and accepted between the occupational medicine services on paper and electronic media ex officio in case of change of the employee's place of work and a request made by the service of the enterprise. Given the specificities of national legislation and practices in the EU Member States, it may be necessary to establish a different procedure for occupational health care and health surveillance of workers in the Member State where the worker's previous work experience took place. In any case, the commitment of the occupational medicine service is to seek ex officio information about his medical supervision, which to include in the personal health file within the meaning of Art. 11, para. 10 of Ordinance № 3 of 25.01.2008.
