Health and safety | The Central Democratic Trade Unions protested against the Boulette reform

Patrice Bergeron
The Canadian Press

Following the FTQ and CSN, the Central Democratic Union (CSD) on Wednesday rejected Bill 59, which is currently being studied by a parliamentary committee.

According to CSD, the bill opens the door to private medicine.

True, if the bill is passed, the employer will have no obligation to consult public health in terms of prevention, which was welcomed by the Employers Council on Tuesday.

“This decline, this privatization” “marginalizes neutral and honest expertise in public health,” said CSD President Luke Watchen.

In addition, the opinion of the physician treating the injured person will no longer exist before returning to work or rehab, which opens the door to all sorts of disputes with employer-paid physicians, denied CSD President, Luke Watchen.

This reform undermines the basic tenet of the current regime, namely to prevent asylum from “administrative rights and the balance of power”, he continued.

In the morning, the Union Interprofessional Health Federation (FIIQ), which represents nurses, also called on the minister to maintain the over-opinion of the attending physician.

Also, FIQ asked the government to include mental injuries and “women’s illnesses” in the list of occupational diseases eligible for compensation. Jean Boulette showed openness.

I am very sensitive about this, ”the minister said. Specific responsibilities may be assigned to the Scientific Committee provided for in the Bill.

“Is it possible to give a specific mandate to a scientific committee to look at psychological trauma in work environments such as health care and health, as well as to look specifically at diseases that are more specific to women?” ? ”

The list of diseases introduced in the reform project has already been improved. Therefore, for post-traumatic stress disorder we add pres han – but not for burn out – and nine new occupational cancers.

“We believe the diagnosis of mental illness is in addition […] That’s the decent thing to do, and it should end there, “said Linda Lapoint, FIQ’s vice president.

“It simply came to our notice then. […] Many of our professionals are at high risk for developing occupational diseases of a psychological nature such as adjustment disorder and depression. ”

It is important to update this 40-year law with a view to the future so that it does not take into account physical injuries in factories where there are more male workers, she continued.

Members of the FIQ have an “emotional burden” to handle outside of the care settings of spouses, single mothers, natural caregivers.^{To me} Point.

“It is important to have new, more feminist glasses so that professionals are more aware. ”

Bill 59 aims to focus on prevention to reduce compensation costs.

Owners are divided between size and low, moderate and high risk levels. And, depending on the case, the number of preventive measures that apply to them will vary.

According to CNESST data, mental injuries have increased by 67% in the last 10 years.

CNESST paid a total of $ 2.22 billion in benefits in 2018. It then admitted 103,406 occupational injuries and recorded 226 deaths. Every day 251 workers are injured.