THE NEW LIAISON MEETING WITH THE EMPLOYER DURING SICK LEAVE. Prolonged work stoppages can be accompanied by a risk of job loss. In the overall job retention strategy, the importance of a concerted return-to-work plan between the worker, the occupational physician, the employer and the attending physician was highlighted in the recommendations of the high health authority on job retention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBecoming unfit for work or losing one's job because of multiple sclerosis is not inevitable. Many tools are available and occupational health professionals are now specifically mandated to support workers, whether or not they are employees, in maintaining their jobs, thanks in particular to the prevention of professional displacement unit, the recommendations of the French National Authority for Health and better coordination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Given the low rate of retention in a company after an employee has been found unfit for the job, our aim was to determine the factors related to employees being kept by their company one month after being declared unfit for the job due to either a musculoskeletal disease (MSD) or a mental health disorder (MHD).
Methods: This study was based on all employees declared unfit for the job by the occupational physicians in the "Unfitness" survey in the French "Hauts-de-France" region between 2014 and 2018. For each of the two groups of workers, factors related to the employees being kept by their company one month after being declared unfit for the job were studied by logistic regression.