Unemployment period counts as mining work even without prior mining employment under social security law.

The Supreme Court dismissed the Social Insurance Institution's cassation appeal against a lower court ruling granting a miner's pension. The lower court included a six-month unemployment period in the qualifying mining work duration, despite the unemployment not being immediately preceded by mining work. The court rejected the appellant's argument that a strict temporal link to prior mining employment was required, holding that the statutory provision allows such periods to count regardless of the preceding work type.