Sixteen personalities, including the ecologists Yannick Jadot and Eric Piolle, denounce as “a Trojan horse of social regression” the possibility that companies buy back RTT days from employees, approved on July 22 in the Assembly.
In a column published Saturday on the website of the JDDthey believe that this measure, proposed by LR deputies as part of the reform of the finance law, “deals an unprecedented blow at 35 hours.”
Like the left in the Assembly, they criticize a provision that “serves above all to avoid dealing with the real issue of purchasing power: wage increases.”
These personalities, among whom are union representatives of the CFE-CGC and CFDT cadres, see it as “a powerful lever for the employer, which allows him to reject the assignment of rest days arguing that they are paid, as opposed to a worker”. torn between the need for rest from him and the improvement of the purchasing power of him.”
A “relative improvement, moreover, because offering to pay RTT increased to 10% instead of increasing overtime to 25%, is to offer to ‘work much harder for little pay,'” they write.
fierce debates
The Reduced Days system (RTT) assigns days or half days of rest to workers whose working day exceeds 35 hours per week, which currently disappear if they are not used. Redemption is only possible by company or branch agreement or in specific cases.
In addition, “the possibility ‘encadrée’ of monetization is soumise à cotisations, contributing also to the financement of social protection. The new disposition, elle, exonère l’employeur du versement de cotisations employerales, ce qui affaiblit ce financement”, soulignent- they.
The bills for the Purchasing Power and Rectified Budget Law gave rise to fierce debates between the majority and the opposition in the Assembly. In particular, between the government and elected leftists who have diametrically opposed economic views on how to restore the purchasing power of the French in the face of high inflation.
Senators will embark on the 2022 amending budget on Monday, with a debate over a potential “super-profit” tax that promises to be heated.
Source: BFM TV
