In the week of 06 March 2017, the organization representing temporary employment businesses, Prism’Emploi, and four out of the five union organizations (CGT, CFDT, FO, and CFTC) signed an occupational health and safety agreement for the sector. Fifteen years after the previous agreement was signed in 2002, the new text particularly focuses on permanent workers’ quality of life at work (‘la qualité de vie au travail’). As regards interim employees, it is up to the user company to assess the health and safety risks and ensure that these workers can carry out their activities safely, and the agreement contains measures that enable the temp agency to play the role of their health and safety protection.
Focus on quality of life at work. The agreement intends for a ‘health contact professional’, regardless of company size that is tasked with assisting the head of the company in defining a policy on health and safety monitoring and prevention for permanent workers, their workplace accidents and work commute accidents, and also those of interim workers.
The agreement focuses on quality of life at work, defining it as follows: ‘ quality of life at work can been perceived as a feeling of wellbeing a
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