Sick leave: “When Macron says he doesn’t like people saying that work is hard, it sends the wrong message.”
Changes in the world of work and the government's scuttling of prevention measures are taking a heavy toll on sick leave days, explains ergonomist Serge Volkoff, an ergonomist specializing in the relationship between age, work, and health.
By tackling doctors who prescribe too much and by limiting first-time sick leave, is the government addressing the right problem?
Serge Volkoff
Ergonomist specializing in the relationship between age, work and health
Half of the days of sick leave are due to absences lasting more than six months, according to Social Security figures. This concerns cancers, cardiovascular diseases, serious accidents, etc.
These sick leave periods are increasing due to successive pension reforms, reinforced by the demographic factor of the baby boom. Medical advances must also be taken into account. People who would have been dead or disabled thirty years ago are now better treated and screened earlier, for example, for breast cancer.
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