The word calamity implies the succession of a large-scale misfortune or misfortune, that is, that the same affects many people
Disaster or misfortune of enormous scope because it touches thousands of people and affects their lives and causes great material damage
The calamity, by the gravity that it supposes per se, it will alter the regular order that things present in the place in which it happens. It may be a natural event, such is the case of the earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, or else, be caused by the human being, such is the case of a war.
Regardless of its triggering factor, always, the calamity will cause human and material losses on a large scale, the latter difficult to solve quickly because they require money and infrastructure to return the place affected to its normal state.
Recently, planet earth witnessed one of the greatest calamities in history that occurred in one of its territories: Japan. The tsunami that mainly affected the island of Japan not only caused the death of thousands and thousands of people, injured many others and caused magnificent material damage, but also raised the alarm of nuclear proliferation as a result of the explosion of several nuclear power plants .
Climate change, directly responsible for many natural disasters that are experienced today
But the case of Japan we mentioned is one of the many that moves the world, unfortunately, every day it is more common and recurrent to find scenarios of this type. Climate change, caused in many cases by the negligent action of man in many aspects, is undoubtedly one of the reasons for this, and if there is no global political will and a commitment from society in general, it will be very difficult not to continue. appreciating situations of this kind.
Nature often has unforeseen events prepared for us that cannot be stopped or anticipated even with the highest technology, however, there are many other calamities that are not the result of nature but have to do with an excessive action and little affect the health of the planet that human beings have been developing for years, and of course, today we are beginning to pay the consequences of this.
Meanwhile, the word calamity is linked to other terms, such as: misfortune, misfortune, adversity, cataclysm, hecatomb, misery, havoc and scourge, which are often used as synonyms for calamity and vice versa. Instead, fortune, victory and bliss are the words that are directly opposed to this sense.
People commonly followed by misfortunes
And the other of the uses that we normally give to the word calamity allows us to designate that clumsy person or to whom all kinds of problems happen all the time. This sense of the term is linked to words like clumsy, incapable, unskilled, awkward and big-handed and opposes those of skillful and crafty.
There are individuals who have a natural propensity for clumsiness and unpleasantness.
Their position in life is the one that ends up putting them in circumstances that they cannot handle and that end up complicating their existence, in addition to causing damage.
Domestic calamity: serious event that affects the health of an employee or a family member
Domestic calamity, for its part, it turns out to be a concept frequently used in the workplace and which involves everyone Serious family event that affects the normal development of an individual's activities at work, among them are: illness, death, serious injury of a direct relative, among others. Such a state of affairs will demand that the employer in question grant the worker who is suffering from this situation the pertinent licenses until the misfortune is overcome.
One of the benefits that workers have achieved after long decades of union struggle is that they are recognized certain basic rights that, although they do not have to do directly with their professional tasks, are linked to their lives and end up having repercussions in the workplace. .
If a direct relative, child or spouse, of an employee, becomes ill, they will need it and so the worker will have to request the aforementioned leave from their bosses to be able to accompany them in recovery or treatment.
These leaves must be given without a salary discount for absences from work, but the employee must present the pertinent medical certificates.
