Communicated :
Initiated in mid-June, the inter-professional negotiations on occupational health concluded on Wednesday 9 December. Trade unions have up to
January 8 to sign this agreement.
The CGT has launched a consultation with its organizations to decide on its position regarding the signing of this text. According to Jérôme Vivenza, negotiator for the CGT, “this text will have disastrous consequences on the employees, even on their life expectancy”. In fact, this proposed agreement is a new opportunity for the government to degrade the rights and the means of workers concerning their health.
After having abolished the CHSCT (Committees of Hygiene, Health and Working Conditions) with the Macron ordinances, rolled back the recognition of work accidents with the ANI on teleworking, this proposed agreement is a further regression .
This agreement aims to relieve employers of their responsibilities.
However, this responsibility is imposed by European law in the European framework directive on safety and health at work (directive 89/391 EEC) adopted in 1989. A legal framework from which the employers hope to escape, dismissing all responsibility to occupational medicine, even to town medicine, which, however, does not know the specific nature of the professions and their risks.
Worse, they want to shift the responsibility back to the workers themselves. The employers have thus succeeded in installing levers that will allow them to transfer the consequences of pathogenic work organizations to the living conditions and lifestyle of employees.
This negotiation missed the point: primary prevention and a real possibility for workers to act on the organization of their work so that it has meaning and usefulness.
The employers persist in refusing the intervention of the employees in the organization of the work whereas they are the first experts. No improvement is made to the workers’ right of expression either.
For the CGT, all workers should be able to express themselves about their work, without risking being penalized or discriminated against.
The right to alert should be available to all employees and apply to questions of public health and environmental health.
Our organization wants an agreement with new rights, including for example the attachment of the Occupational Health Services and Occupational Medicine to Social Security in order to implement a major occupational health policy in complete independence, as well as the return of the CHSCTs, which would be endowed with more skills, in particular on the environmental impact of companies.
The poverty of these agreements calls into question the paritarism and the employers must assume their responsibilities.
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