Inform, carry out awareness-raising activities, facilitate the return to work and “break the taboo of illness at work”.
These are the main objectives of the charter signed Monday February 5 in Évry-Courcouronnes between the League against Cancer and the Essonne departmental council.
Until now, the “Lig’entreprises” project of the Essonne committee of the League was signed with companies.
But with 4,600 agents, the departmental council is a community faced with the same working conditions as a company.
And the agents attached to it are no exception to this statistic: nearly 10,000 new cases of cancer are detected each year in Essonne.
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“I am proud to strengthen our commitment alongside the League,” says François Durovray, the president (LR) of the departmental council.
Talking about cancer without taboo means realizing that this disease can, unfortunately, affect those around us in the professional environment.
We are stepping up our efforts to break taboos and facilitate the professional integration of our agents who could be faced with cancer.
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Screening and support
Commitments welcomed by Doctor Hervé Gautier, the volunteer president of the League against cancer in Essonne.
“This charter aims to develop actions for agents of the departmental council, as we do for employees in partner companies,” he explains.
This begins with awareness-raising and screening operations.
But also through support actions.
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Because Hervé Gautier reminds us: “Cancer patients must bear out-of-pocket expenses of 47%.
We must offer them care and life paths, improve and facilitate the return or retention in employment of agents affected by the disease.
Their orientation and that of their caregivers will be done by professionals from the occupational health department or staff social workers.
We must act in solidarity.
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