Question 16577 — work accidents and occupational diseases

Summary

Ms. Sophie Taillé-Polian draws the attention of the Minister of Labor and Solidarity to the Government's decision to demand 800 million euros in savings from the social partners in the Work Accidents and Occupational Diseases (AT-MP) branch of social security. This new request for a budgetary cut is a dramatic signal sent to millions of workers in the country, while France displays a balance sheet particularly alarming in terms of workplace safety, regularly ranking among the worst performers in the European Union with more than two work-related deaths per day. The absolute priority should be the strengthening of prevention policies and the full reparation of the harm suffered by victims and not the weakening of this branch. The urgency to act is all the more acute at a time when workers and workers are facing, head on, the Government's climate inaction. The intensification and multiplication of heatwave periods are transforming many workstations into areas of mortal danger and risk. Whether in the construction trades, public works, agriculture, logistics, transport or delivery, working in extreme heat exponentially multiplies the risks of discomfort, fatal heat stroke and accidents due to loss of vigilance. Rather than cutting the budget of the AT-MP branch, the Government's responsibility should be to massively finance the adaptation of workplaces to climate change, to strengthen labor inspection controls and to force employers to adapt working hours or to stop activity during heat peaks without loss of salary. The AT-MP branch, structurally in surplus, is entirely financed by employer contributions. This surplus cannot be used as a budgetary adjustment variable to make up for the deficits of the State or other branches of social security, to the direct detriment of the life and physical integrity of employees. Reducing the resources of this branch amounts to weakening the budgets allocated to the prevention of a risk climatic yet predictable and deadly. Furthermore, this measure is part of a logic of blaming victims of professional wear and tear, while the postponement of the legal retirement age mechanically worsens the exposure of seniors to major professional risks, particularly during these seasonal environmental crises. Faced with this choice of accounting austerity to the detriment of human lives and faced with denial climatic realities in the workplace, she asks him if the Government intends to renounce this requirement for savings of one billion euros and if it finally intends to initiate a major national plan for the protection and prevention of workers equipped with resources commensurate with the social and ecological emergency.

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