INDUSTRIAL INJURY
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| ACCIDENT PROFESSIONNEL INDUSTRIAL INJURY |
Term covering both accidents at work in the strict sense and accidents en route , the consequences of which attract compensatory payment from the Industrial Injuries Insurance Association for those compulsorily insured with it. An accident at work (accident du travail ) is one suffered by the insured by reason of or during the course of their employment. An accident en route (accident de trajet) is one suffered by the insured in the course of their normal and direct journey between home and the workplace, and other employment-related journeys. Industrial injury gives rise to benefits in kind (medical treatment, medicines, the costs of hospitalization and the provision of everything likely to guarantee the results of treatment, without any time-limit or any contribution to the costs by the victim, within specified agreed limits) and cash benefits. A monthly partial or full pension is paid according to the degree of incapacity. Total (100 per cent.) incapacity confers entitlement to a pension of 86.5 per cent. of the victim's earnings during the year preceding the accident, increased by 10 per cent. for each dependent child, but the total must not exceed 100 per cent. of the pay used as the basis for calculation. Such an industrial injury pension (rente d'accident ) may be received in addition to an invalidity pension provided their combined total does not exceed the average of the insured person's five best years' pay. If the victim dies as a result of industrial injury, their close relatives receive survivors' pensions (rentes de survie ) and a death grant .
Please note: the European industrial relations glossaries were compiled between 1991 and 2003 and are not updated. For current material see the European industrial relations dictionary.