A unanimous vote against him from the left. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, in full examination of the tax reform project, the Senate voted in favor of a reform that allows monetizing the days of recovery of work time not enjoyed, based on an agreement with the employer. If this provision was indeed contained in the version voted by the National Assembly in first reading, it should end on December 31, 2023, in accordance with the will of the executive. Finally, the system must be made permanent.
“While we should reduce working time, last night the Senate ended 35 hours,” Green MP Sandrine Rousseau said on her Twitter account on Tuesday.
“We are burying in silence the 35 hours”
The Delegate Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, saw in this reform “a measure that gives employees more freedom to pay for their work”, while giving an unfavorable opinion of the Government. “We’re perfectly guessing to put up a corner within 35 hours,” Senator LR Christine Lavarde responded, to boos from the left.
“We are silent, in the middle of the night, in August, burying the 35-hour work week, which is one of the last great social reforms in this country, which has created 350,000 jobs in 10 years,” Senator EELV denounced at the microphone. Thomas Dosus.
The same story on the side of La France insoumise and the Socialist Party where they point the finger at the responsibility of the executive. In the Senate, Renaissance elected officials abstained on this amendment.
“We cannot stop the regression in macronie: goodbye to 35 hours… The sprains were already legion but now the employers will be able to monetize the RTTs. It is crazy because reducing the working day improves life and allows you to share a job”, he advanced the rebel deputy Clémentine Autain.
“A Social Regression Quiz”
Arthur Delaporte, socialist deputy and spokesman for the group, denounced for his part “a new agreement between LR and the majority to end the 35 hours”, while the communist senator Céline Brulin lamented a competition for who will go further in terms of regression This general anger on the left is far from a surprise.
Following the vote on this provision on July 22 in the Assembly, the environmentalists Yannick Jadot and Éric Piolle had already denounced “the Trojan horse of social regression” in a column published on the website of the Sunday newspaper.
They particularly criticized a provision that “mainly serves to avoid dealing with the real issue of purchasing power: wage increases.”
The salary question considered forgotten by the left
The Nupes have long crossed paths with the presidential coalition during the purchasing power bill in the National Assembly, wanting an increase in pay. The executive prefers to bet on tripling Macron’s bonus.
During the night from Monday to Tuesday, the Senate also raised the tax exemption ceiling for overtime from 5,000 to 7,500 euros and made the system permanent. The abolition of the audiovisual license canon was also voted against the opinion of the left. Once voted by the upper house, the deputies and senators must agree on a common version of the text in a joint commission.
Source: BFM TV
