Pensions: Senate passed reforming the provision of occupational medicine

Written by Sandeep Nehra

The Senate passed early Sunday morning reforming the provision of occupational medicine introduced by MPs in the draft law on pensions.

Throughout the debate, Senators left, like their fellow members before them, had fought against this provision, arguing that there would be a “loss of independence in occupational medicine.

They taunted a written text on the desktop Laurence Parisot, “president of MEDEF, the fruit” of arbitration between employers and the government, “the Communist Guy Fischer.

For them, the reform of occupational medicine should have been the subject of a specific bill.

Several elected leftists have denounced a “legislative rider” (a provision unrelated to the text in which it is incorporated)

This reform was introduced in the National Assembly under the section on hardship.

The rapporteur of the text, Dominique Leclerc (UMP), which rewrote the provision, said that “all organizations representing occupational physicians had expressed overall satisfaction.”

The reform stipulates that the tasks of occupational health services “are performed by occupational physicians, in conjunction with employers and employees designated activities of protection and prevention of occupational risks or stakeholders, prevention of occupational hazards“.

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