return to work; Disability prevention; stakeholders; social law
Abstract :
[en] Three cases of structural and procedural barriers to RTW in the Belgian health system
• Access to “part-time return to work”: past (before 2013) and present procedures; which improvements are brought by the regulation change effective in April 2013?
• “Pre-return to work visit” by the occupational physician: theoretical advantages of this visit introduced in the labour law in 2004; why is it poorly implemented? what are the actual barriers to access it? what changes should be brought to lower the access threshold?
• How to implement in the Belgian system a procedure of therapeutic RTW like the Quebec RTT system (a period of trial RTW without productivity requirements and with no costs to the employer)? Exercise case to be solved by the WDP trainees.
Reference: Mairiaux et al. National study report on return to work after a long sickness absence (in Dutch): http://www.werk.belgie.be/moduleDefault.aspx?id=37079
Disciplines :
Social law Public health, health care sciences & services
Author, co-author :
Mairiaux, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la santé publique > Santé au travail et éducation pour la santé (STES)
Language :
English
Title :
Three cases of structural and procedural barriers to return to work in the Belgian health system.
Publication date :
12 June 2013
Event name :
Symposium on Sociopolitical Challenges in Work Disability Prevention
Event organizer :
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
