Les effets de la précarité du travail sur la santé : le droit du travail peut-il s’en saisir ?

Abstract

Work is changing, particularly from the standpoint of its precarization and organizational constraints. Through the interactions between the professional path and health, intermittent employment and work precariousness have consequences on workers’ health. These problems result in distress that can sometimes lead to suicide. In addition to this suffering, this phenomenon has a cost not only for the victims, but also for social security and the company. As well, labour law must be able to take the labour market reconfiguration into account in order to improve working conditions. This is achieved by taking health and the new professional trajectories (mobility, intermittent employment, company reorganization) into consideration, but also by confronting the company’s principal prevention body (represented by the joint health, safety and working conditions committee) with the precariousness of work.

Keywords

• precariousness
• law
• working conditions