The rate of absences of agents working in local authorities has increased by 19% since 2007, according to a survey.
Absenteeism is increasing within local authorities. The absence rate of agents working in these structures has increased by 19% since 2007, according to a report. investigation published this Tuesday, and conducted by the insurance broker for local authorities and health establishments, Sofaxis, for the 16e year.
In 2014, this rate of absences was on average 8.8%. Ordinary illness represents the first factor of absence for health reasons: its share varies between 41 and 46% of the absence rate each year.
Workplace accidents are on the rise
Long-term illness (or long-term illness) represents about a third of the overall absence rate (between 31 and 36%). Accidents at work fluctuate between 12 and 15% and maternity is around 10%.
It is the work accident which shows the strongest increase in the absence rate (+ 49% since 2007). In 2014, the average duration of outages tended to decrease, notes Sofaxis. A phenomenon linked, according to the study, to the elimination of the deficiency day, which led to an increase in the proportion of short stops.
In total, 42% of agents were absent at least once in 2014 (compared to 40% in 2013) and 31% of them were because of ordinary illness (6% for accidents at work, 3% for long sick / long term leave and 2% on maternity leave).
Long illness: employees are becoming more precarious
The average cost of absences was 1961 euros on average per employee in 2014. Ordinary illness represents 44% of this average cost (ie 861 euros), followed by long illness (29%, ie 575 euros).
When the stoppages extend beyond 90 days cumulated over a year, the transition to half-salary results in a significant loss of income, “which makes the economic balance of the agent’s household precarious,” notes the broker.
For example, for an outage of 184 days, the income of a Category C agent decreases by almost 13%. In long illness, for a 2-year stoppage, a category B agent may see his income halved from the second year.
The study was carried out among 366,700 agents affiliated to the national pension fund for local government employees (CNRACL), spread across 18,500 insured communities.
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