Burnout should not become a recognized occupational disease
The Federal Council does not want to include burnout syndrome in the list of recognized occupational diseases.
According to the will of the Federal Council, burnout syndrome should not be included in the catalog of occupational diseases of the Ordinance on Accident Insurance (VUV). He emphasized this in his response to a parliamentary initiative by Berberat Didier.
On the one hand, the Federal Council justifies this by saying that it breaks the causality principle of the UVG, since burnout depends on several factors - in addition to work, family, financial and cultural reasons also play a role. On the other hand, it fears an "unforeseeable expansion of cases" due to the unclear definition of burnout.
Similarly, the Federal Council does not consider it necessary to amend the law in order to intensify prevention. It considers the current and planned measures to be "sufficient" from today's perspective.
