Combating Cardiac Arrest: Mandatory Training Before Retirement

Social right. After 2003, 2010 and 2014, the discussion on pension reform again focused on keeping older people in employment and balancing the schemes by increasing the minimum retirement age and increasing the contribution period of active workers.

This prolongation of working life raises questions about the health status of older people at work, the conditions under which they have to continue their activities, their motivation and perceptions that employers have about this in the context of work activation, changing organizations and increased competition. between companies.

In addition, the employer is legally responsible for the physical and mental health and safety of employees. According to article L. 4121-1 et seq. of the Labor Code, he must take the necessary measures. It carries a safety obligation, even with an aging workforce, which mechanically leads to an increase in situations of disability or incapacity, as well as a dearth of “soft” reclassification positions. which is just as surely caused. he.

The employer’s commitment goes beyond the company and the professional career. Thus, before mandatory retirement, a medical examination is conducted for employees who are exposed to certain occupational risks or carcinogenic agents during their career.

during normal business hours

Another device does not appear in Book IV of the Labor Code “Health and Safety at Work”, but among the organized provisions of the termination of the employment contract due to retirement, the obligation is still little known. In the article L. 1237-9-1 we read that “Employees benefit from pre-retirement cardiac arrest awareness and life-saving gestures”. The implementing regulations provide that the time devoted to this awareness is considered working time and takes place during normal working hours.

This system, which has its counterpart in the school of pupils, according to the Commission on Social Affairs of the National Assembly, must ensure “That no one leaves the business world without going through this training. Naturally, it is not a matter of giving it out in the last days of the employee’s work – he can do it much earlier – but to reach as wide a public as possible..