Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Εργατικό ΔίκαιοLibrary of the School of Law
Author:
Georgopoulos Nikolaos
Supervisors info:
Δημήτριος Λαδάς, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής Νομικής ΕΚΠΑ
Κωνσταντίνος Παπαδημητρίου, Καθηγητής Νομικής ΕΚΠΑ
Κωνσταντίνος Μπακόπουλος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής Νομικής ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η ψυχική επιβάρυνση στη σύμβαση εργασίας. Ειδικότερα το σύνδρομο Burn-out
Translated title:
Mental burden in the emloyment contract. The Burn-out syndrome
Summary:
The protection of employees’s mental health has not been historically regarded as serious threat for health and safety at work. This fact should not lead us to the conclusion that mental health is not protected at all within the existant legislation about health and safety at work. The limits of this protection, though, seem indistinguishable.
Psychosocial risks and work related stress will more and more be mentioned as causes of damage to employees’s health in the near future. At the present time they pose as one of the most serious threats for health at work due to the radical changes in the world of labour. Extreme time pressure, intensification of work, fundamental changes in the process of production etc create the circumstances for them to flourish.
As a result of their emergence labour law and every workplace face difficult tasks against modern threats for mental health such as the burnout syndrome. Described as a state of vital mental and emotional exhaustion burnout syndromes relates to many aspects of the workplace and the nature of employment itself. As a newly featured phenomenon it has not been examined –until now- under the legislation regarding health and safety at work and labour law in general. This study, finally, constitutes a first attempt of association between labour law and burnout syndrome.
Main subject category:
Law and Legislation
Other subject categories:
Labour Law
Keywords:
mental health, employee,stress, psychosocial risks, burnout, labour law
