Doctors should be provided with options such as offering employees ‘work from home’ prescriptions, as an alternative to the average doctor’s note suggesting total or partial rest," reads the report. So workers in France could soon be asked to work from their sofas or even their sick beds when they are unwell. Helping people on long-term sick leave get back to workOne of the added advantages of teleworking is that it will prevent employees on longer periods of sick leave from “running the risk of dropping out of professional life", the study reads. A compulsory day of unpaid sick leavePerhaps the most controversial of the proposed measures is the introduction of an extra day of contractually agreed unpaid sick leave. The proposal is in particular a hard pill to swallow for private sector employees who have to claim back their sick leave from La Sécu if their company doesn’t cover the jours de carence.

Source: The Local February 21, 2019 11:03 UTC