2023-09-30 15:53:48
MG France considers that this measure, planned in the next Social Security budget, risks causing a “social breakdown”.
The control of sick leave by the employer via a mandated doctor, provided for in the next Social Security budget, is a measure of “social coffers” that must be “deleted», Judged on Saturday MG France, the first union of general practitioners. The syndicate “alerts parliamentarians to the danger contained in this provision, which must be removed“, did he declare.
The government, which presented this week its annual Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), included several measures intended to limit the increase in expenses linked to sick leave. Among these, a provision will give an employer the power to appoint a doctor to check the merits of sick leave, the latter being granted by the treating doctor of the employee in question.
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This possibility of a second inspection is not new, but it would now have more serious consequences: when the doctor sent by the employer judges the stoppage to be unjustified, the payment of compensation could be suspended. “If the fight against fraud is essential, social destruction is not an option“, declared MG France. Certainly, the provision provides for the possibility of an appeal, but this would not be “immediate”, according to the union. “Administrative delays and the difficulties of some of our patients in mobilizing them will deprive the most vulnerable among them of daily allowances.», Estimates MG France. The trade union calls on all treating doctors to make available to their patients the letter of protest that may be necessary, in case the measure should apply.
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