Merging work stoppage forms: what's new

The aim of this change is to simplify the prescription of work stoppages for health professionals and to make it easier for employers and employees to take action.

This change will be made gradually, depending on the use made of the new forms by health professionals and prescribers of work stoppages.

The implementation of a single Cerfa form

Accident at work Regardless of the reason for the stoppage of work (sickness, maternity, paternity, child-care or occupational disease), employers will now receive only one Cerfa form when an employee is on a work stoppage, initial or extension. Only a check box on the single form will allow the employer to indicate the reason for the work stoppage.

What's changing

This unique form includes some new features:

• limitation period for employees on parental bereavement leave following the death of their child under 25 years of age (or a person under 25 years of age who is their actual and permanent dependant);
• possibility for the prescribing physician to explicitly authorize his patient to exercise an activity during his work stoppage;
• possibility of adding details in the case where the insured person carries out several professional activities simultaneously (artists, authors, local elected representatives).

Accident at work New provisions specific to occupational diseases

As regards medical certificates for the recognition and follow-up of accidents at work and occupational diseases, these no longer bear a work stoppage prescription. Only a description of the lesions noted by the physician will be indicated.

Thus, the employee no longer has to send these medical certificates to his employer. However, they remain necessary in the event of an investigation by the services of the primary sickness insurance fund in the context of the adversarial period preceding the decision to take charge of or reject the claim.