After receiving the report on psychosocial risks on March 12, Xavier Bertrand, Minister of Labor, announced the beginning of a large national study on work-related stress (WRS) among other initiatives. Social partners will start bargaining for a European framework agreement on stress on April 7. Since the end of 2006, the country has been faced with a wave of suicides at work, which raised awareness among social actors and forced the government to act. (Ref. 080229)
Context raises awareness. Macabre coincidence, the day Mr. Bertrand received the report, an employee from one of Renault’s subcontractors killed himself on the Guyancourt site. Three suicides were already committed on this site between the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007. On two PSA sites, there were 6 suicides in a year, after which the management ordered a study on stress. Carried out among three sites (Mulhouse, Sochaux and Velizy), the study shows that among women – all categories taken into account – 27.80% are “overstressed” (which means a level of stress which is so intense that it might jeopardize the person’s health), as opposed to 18.30% among men and executives, who are spared than workers.
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