A few days ago, Benoît Hamon, PS deputy for Yvelines, tabled amendments to the bill on social dialogue with the aim of including the burnout as an occupational disease , considering that “psychological pathologies can be recognized as diseases of occupational origin” under the same conditions as other conditions. During the vote on this bill, on May 29, the deputies therefore validated the inclusion of burnout in occupational diseases.
These pathologies should be taken into account via the complementary system for the recognition of occupational diseases, the inclusion in the table of occupational diseases not being adapted to the specificity and complexity of these pathologies, according to the presentation of the reasons for the amendment. But this decision is not to the taste of the senators who come, during the examination of the law in the Senate, to remove the burn-out from this list.
François Rebsamen, the Minister of Labour, underlined that the government is “very attached” to this provision, which constitutes “significant progress in the recognition of burn-out situations, which will be accompanied by a very strong emphasis on prevention”.
The vote of the senators will be followed by a joint joint committee (7 deputies, 7 senators) responsible for finding a common version for the two Chambers. In case of failure, the Assembly will have the last word.
12.6% of the French working population, or 3.2 million people, are currently in a situation of excessive and compulsive work. Burnout would thus affect one out of two farmers, one in five craftsmen, shopkeepers and entrepreneurs or executives.
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