Burn-out, or professional exhaustion, is a term that includes deep fatigue, disinvestment in professional activity, difficulty concentrating or even a feeling of failure. This burnout syndrome usually occurs because of a stress chronic professional and work overload.
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.
However, this status could change quickly. 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 that we must respond to,” 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 eruption of new technologies, the seizure of power by shareholders and the resulting short-term demands. . Now, employees are mainly judged on their contribution to overall performance,” he added. In this sense, he believes that the recognition of burnout 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, the examination of which should begin on the afternoon of May 26.
This approach follows the request, in December 2014, of about thirty deputies of the majority of recognize burnout as an occupational disease. The employee will then no longer be considered as a person in nervous breakdown supported by Social Security but by the professional branch financed by company contributions. This “dissuasive” cost for Benoît Hamon does not really appeal to employers, who would prefer better prevention and point out the difficulty of defining whether the burnout of the employee is solely linked to professional or non-professional factors.
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