The control of sick leave by the employer through a mandatory doctor, provided for in the next Social Security budget, is a measure of “social breakdown” that must be “eliminated”, ruled this Saturday MG France, the main union of general practitioners.
The union “alerts parliamentarians about the danger of this provision, which must be eliminated,” it said in a press release.
“Social destruction is not an option”
The government, which presented its annual Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) this week, included several measures aimed at limiting the increase in expenses linked to sick leave.
Among them, one provision will grant the employer the power to appoint a doctor to verify the merit of the sick leave, the latter being granted by the treating doctor of the employee in question.
This possibility of a second inspection is not new, but it would now have more serious consequences: when the doctor sent by the employer considers the strike 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 of their diets,” estimates MG France.
The union calls on all treating doctors to make the necessary protest letter available to their patients, in case the measure is applied.
Source: BFM TV
