With a valid contract and when working as a domestic worker, Woman enters temporary disability process due to some illnesses and other symptoms in the female genital organs. The last of these leaves lasts until January 2024. It was at that time that the worker requested permanent disability.
And the truth is that the employee had already tried to obtain this condition on previous occasions. This is indicated by the decision of the Social Court nº 1 of Barcelona published at the end of March last year, 2025. Specifically, Social Security has already he was denied permanent disability in the month of December of the year 2022.
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The diagnosis from that same year, 2022, indicated that the worker showed “signs of degenerative tendinopathy with linear SE break, no signs of muscle atrophy“. This same diagnosis made it clear that “global functionalism” was preserved of the employee, despite her illnesses.
As if that were not enough, in March 2025 the medical report from the National Social Security Institute and medical expert evidence, that which makes it clear that the employee suffered from “fibromyalgia under control and/or treatment with preserved functionality and generalized degenerative polyarthropia without evaluable limitation”, states the decision.
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Social Security, based on this report and after the worker has submitted a complaint, with which she may be entitled, if approved, to a monthly regulatory basis of 607.84 eurosdecide deny the worker recognition of permanent disability again in any of its degrees.
With these precedents, the employee decides to file a petition, then the case ends in Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia. The one who handed down the sentence at the end of January of this same year, 2026. He did it, again, to confirm the court decision and therefore deny the worker the recognition of permanent disability.
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“The appellant’s functional reductions They are not serious and do not significantly reduce your performance in your usual job as a domestic worker.causing inconveniences that in their current state they must be able to bear”, clarifies the court’s decision. Therefore, the court dismisses the appeal and confirms the decision of the Social Court No. 1 of Barcelona.
