Burn-out, or professional exhaustion, is a term that combines deep fatigue, a disinvestment from professional activity, difficulty concentrating or a feeling of failure. This burnout syndrome usually occurs because of a stress chronic professional and overwork.
At present, the burnout is not recognized as an occupational disease, and therefore remains the responsibility of Social Security and the patient, without penalizing employers.
But that status could change quickly, however. Benoît Hamon, PS deputy for Yvelines, has just tabled amendments to the bill on social dialogue with the aim of registering burnout as an occupational disease.
“Burnout is a social challenge to which we must respond,” said Benoît Hamon in an interview with Liberation. “If this phenomenon appears with such force today, it is because it is at the crossroads of several upheavals: the irruption of new technologies, the takeover of shareholders and the short-term demands that result from it. . Now, employees are mainly judged on the basis of their contribution to overall performance, ”he added. In this sense, he believes that the recognition of burn-out is “a natural requirement” and an “economic necessity”, to “force companies to pay for the damage they cause to the health of employees. He therefore tabled three amendments to this effect, consideration of which should begin on May 26 in the afternoon.
This approach follows the request, in December 2014, of some thirty MPs from the majority of recognize burnout as an occupational disease. The employee will then no longer be considered as a person with a nervous breakdown supported by Social Security but by the professional branch financed by company contributions. This “dissuasive” cost for Benoît Hamon does not really please the employers, who would prefer better prevention and point to the difficulty of defining whether the burnout of the employee is only related to professional factors or not.
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