Legislation of Professional Risks
Panamanian Legislation
Constitution and State
Law, Labor Law and Social Security in
Panama:
The concept of Constitution. is of utmost importance for the existence of the same
Classification of Constitutions Awarded.- Constitutions granted are said to traditionally correspond to a monarchical State, where the sovereign himself is precisely the one who grants them, Imposed.- Constitutions imposed, Parliament imposes them on the monarch, referring to Parliament in a broad sense , with what refers to the representation of the political forces of the society of a State.
Concept of Panamanian State: The Panamanian state is the supreme political grouping and derives its name from the Latin word status which means fixed place.
Concept of Panamanian Government: The government, the essential element of the State, is a numerous apparatus of men constituted to govern this political body.
Concept of Law: The law constitutes one of the sources, perhaps the main one, of the Law, which, to be issued, requires the competent authority of the State, that is, the Legislative Organ.
Classification of laws: Organic: They are those laws whose content is of an administrative nature since they regulate, in general, the activity of the State for the fulfillment of its purposes and the exercise of its functions. Ordinary: These are the laws that regulate specific cases, such as those of numerals 5, 6 and 17 of the aforementioned article.
The Hierarchies of Panamanian Laws: They are provisions sanctioned by governments arising from revolutions, coups d'état or during other types of crisis, which use this form of legislation.
Laws on Work Safety in Panama: The State will create social welfare and welfare establishments.
Laws of the Political Constitution of Panama that
Establish the Right to Work for Panamanians: The Executive may not dissolve a union except when it permanently departs from its purposes and so declares it a competent court through a final judgment.
Concept of Law: From the subjective point of view, it is said of the faculty, power or individual power to do, choose or abstain, and to demand, allow or prohibit others.
The Concept of Labor Law or Right to Work: Set of theoretical norms and principles that regulate the legal relations between employers and workers and of both with the state, originated by a voluntary, subordinate, remunerated provision of human activity, for the production of goods and services.
Laws of the Political Constitution of Panama that
Establish the Right to Social Security of Panamanians: The State will create social welfare and welfare establishments. economic and social rehabilitation of dependent or resource-poor sectors and care for the mentally incapable
Social Security and Professional Risks
Social Security in Panama: The State must execute certain social policies that guarantee and ensure the well-being of citizens in certain frameworks such as health.
The Social Security Fund in Panama: The Social Security Fund will be in charge of the administration and direction of the Social Security Regime in accordance with the National Constitution, the relevant Laws and Regulations, and will cover the risks of illness, maternity, disability, old age, widowhood, orphanhood, funeral aid, work accidents and occupational diseases.
Professional Risks in Panama: For the purposes of this Insurance, work accident is any bodily injury or functional disturbance that the worker suffers, whether in the performance, on the occasion or as a result of work, and that said disturbance is produced by the sudden action or violence of an external cause, or of the effort made.
Benefits offered by the Social Security Fund to
Panamanian Employee: Medical Benefits, Prosthetics and Orthopedics Subsidies for Temporary Disability. Compensation for Partial Permanent Disability. Pension for Partial and Absolute Permanent Disability. Benefits in the event of the Death of an Active Insured or Pensioner due to Risks, Professionals, or its Survivors. Funeral Assistance.