The new government offensive against sick leave
The Minister of Labor Catherine Vautrin intends to tackle sick leave, deemed too expensive for Social Security. In the viewfinder: long -term stops, including 50 % would be considered unjustified According to a figure relayed by the government. The executive thus prepares measures to empower the various players, with the objective of reduce the bill daily allowances.
This strategy is releasing an old concern: that of reinforced monitoring of prescribing doctors and patients, suspected of diverting a system which is however strictly supervised.
When general practitioners and patients are shown in finger
For MG France, this 50 % figure is a political manipulation. The union recalls that this statistic concerns only a subset of sick leave of more than 18 months studied by doctors-consultants-and not all long stops. The use of this percentage, without explaining its origin, leads to Culminate general practitioners And to throw suspicion on stops yet justified.
By assimilating sickness judgments to abuse or fraud, government discourse fuels a climate of distrust, badly experienced by caregivers as well as patients, often confronted with chronic pathologies or degraded professional situations.
MG France offers a penalty, but for companies
Rather than pointing doctors, Yohan Saynac, vice-president of the MG France union defends in 20 minutes the idea of a system of Bonus-malus applied to companies. This mechanism would be based on a simple logic: companies with an abnormally high sick leave rate could see their contributions increase, while the most virtuous would benefit from reduction.
One of the tracks mentioned would consist of make the employer bring the charge for the first days of stoppingup to a certain threshold. The objective: to empower companies on their working conditions, and to encourage them to prevent psychosocial risks or musculoskeletal disorders.
Forgetting mental health and dead angles of the debate
In this debate centered on the cost, MG France regrets that the deep causes of sick leave is evacuated. Mental health, degraded working conditions, toxic managerial environments, or the insufficiency of occupational medicine are rarely mentioned. However, these factors weigh heavily in prolonged judgments.
Rather than a punitive speech, the union calls for rethink business prevention And to provide occupational medicine with the means necessary to detect alert signals. Because a sick leave is above all a medical act, not an accounting management lever.