34.7 sick days on average per year in France

Les Français prennent 34,7 jours d’arrêts maladie en moyenne par an……..

Les Français prennent 34,7 jours d’arrêts maladie en moyenne par an The French take 34.7 sick days on average per year.
Un salarié français sur trois s’est arrêté de travailler au moins une fois en 2012 et les salariés malades sont absents 34,7 jours en moyenne selon le dernier baromètre… One salaried French worker in three stopped work at least once in 2102 and the sick workers were absent on average 34.7 days according to the latest poll from a leading insurance company.

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Les Français prennent 34,7 jours d’arrêts maladie en moyenne par an

Un salarié (wage earner) français sur trois s’est arrêté de travailler au moins une fois en 2012 et les salariés malades sont absents 34,7 jours en moyenne selon le dernier baromètre de l’assureur Malakoff Médéric

Les Français prennent 34,7 jours d'arrêts maladie en moyenne par anUn salarié français sur trois a pris au moins un jour d’arrêt de travail en 2012, selon le baromètre de Malakoff Médéric © Photo
Drouinaud Emilie
Les arrêts maladie sont souvent considérés, en France, comme un indicateur de l’état de santé des salariés. Dans son cinquième baromètre “Santé et bien-être au travail”, l’assureur Malakoff Médéric analyse ces absences cumulées qui représentent en moyenne 34,7 jours.
Sick days in France are often considered as an indicator of the workers state of health. In it’s fifth poll “Health and well-being of work”, Malakoff Mederic analyse the cumulative absences represented as on average 34.7 days. 
  • 34 % des salariés se sont arrêtés au moins une fois dans l’année. 34% of workers stop work at least once a year.

Un salarié français sur trois a pris au moins un jour d’arrêt en 2012. Un chiffre en augmentation par rapport à 2011 (33,5 %) et 2010 (32,3 %). Les arrêts maladie de courte durée, entre 1 et 9 jours, restent les plus nombreux. Mais ce sont les arrêts maladies de plus d’un mois, dans lesquels sont compris les arrêts longue durée de plus de six mois, qui représentent 70 % du nombre total de jours d’arrêts maladie.

The figures show 33.5% for 2011, and 32.3% for 2010. The short duration of sick days, between 1 and 9 days, are still the most numerous. But the sick days of more than one month, in which are included long duration stoppages of more than six months, represent 70% of the total number of sick days.

Opinion: It would be interesting to further break out the figures between public service and private employees. The blogs/comments to this article in the SudOuest newspaper tries to tease it out but as in many cases seems to become a battle between the two sectors. Petit commercants (SMEs) tend not to associate with the image given by the heavily unionised public sector. They don’t march in demonstrations, they don’t go on strike, they work long hours, and depending on their business their bank loans are more restrictive, shorter duration repayment periods e.g. boulangers compared to an insurance agent office.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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