The government revives in the embers. According to several sources contacted by BFM Business, the Minister of Labor and Employment, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, is considering an extension of the period of illness license deficiency, with the aim of slowing down the social security expenditure linked to the payment of daily assignments.
His cabinet presented the planned project to the social partners who accepted the invitation to exchange on Monday, July 21, less than a week after the presentation of the Public Finance Recovery Plan by Prime Minister François Bayrou.
According to a document transmitted to social partners on Monday, which BFM Business consulted, the Minister of Labor and Employment plans “to even more empower employers in compensation for illness license to reduce their increase.” And this, especially in “transfer[ant] Compensation for illness license between the fourth and seventh day to employers in exchange for strong employee managers. “
Around a day of deficiency or paid by Social Security or the employer
Specifically, the reform of compensation for labor trials imagined by the Government establishes that the first day of the sentence is not compensated, by social security, either by the employer or its insurer. In other words: it would be a matter of transposing the regulations currently applied in the public service in the private sector, creating a public order day that, therefore, will impose a drop in income.
The second and third day will correspond to the “classical” deficiency, that is, employers can pay or not, or not, in accordance with collective agreements or trade agreements.
But the great novelty, which will not delight employers organizations, is that the government wants to force companies to remunerate employees, at least partially, between the fourth and seventh days of the sentence. To date, unless the collective provision or a more favorable company agreement, companies do not support the three -day deficiency and only pay a salary on the eighth day of work stoppage.
It is only from the eighth day that health insurance would take care … with an additional employer? “This is one of the points that must be clarified with social partners, since the idea is to have the responsibility of employers for four days before security intervention,” we breathe in BFM Business at the Minister of Labor’s office.
The firmly opposite business
As expected, the government project does not have the support of employer organizations.
“Nothing is decided at this stage, this is still very hypothetical, there will be other meetings with the government, we tempered in Medef. Traditionally, we oppose any transfer of charges because, ultimately, this harms the competitiveness, employment and purchasing power of employees.”
However, not everything must be erased in the project outlined by the Ministry of Labor. Medef as CPME is in fact for the establishment of one or three days of public deficiency, that is, a period during which the employee with illness is not paid at all, neither by social security nor for its employer. “Let’s do that and strangely, we’ll see them everyone returns to work!” Insists on Éric Chevée.
Unions dressed in the block
The Ministry of Labor will not be able to count on the support of unions that represent employees, especially because only the CFDT and the CFTC agreed to meet with Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet. Not having digested the budget pill of the prime minister last week, the CGT, FO and the CFE-CGC preferred to reject these exchanges immediately and postpone them at the beginning of the school year, while a mobilization against François Bayrou could take shape.
RMC guest on Tuesday, CFDT leader Marylise Léon considered that the seven -day extension of the deficiency period for the payment of daily assignments by the Société would be “deeply unfair.”
“I don’t have the impression that there were impact studies on the subject,” said Jocelyne Cabanal, National Secretary of the CFDT, specialist in forecast subjects.
“What is extremely unpleasant is that there is an approach to these short trials. However, the duration of the trial cannot prejudge its legitimacy or its severity. When it exercises a work that implies repetitive movements, a short stop may be necessary to calm the musculoskeletal inflammation,” he insists.
As for the establishment of a public order day for private employees, the measure could be counterproductive: “The same will happen since what is happening in the public service, instead of returning to work with the risk of reorganizing a unpaid day, you extend your stop if you are not completely sure that you are in a state to resume work,” says the trade unionist.
Elevated to the block against the François Bayrou Economies Plan, whose objective is to generate 43.8 billion euros in savings of 2026, eight joints: CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE -CGC, CFTC, UNSA, FSU and SOLIDARES, launched a petition this Tuesday to “demands the immediate abandonment” of the budgetary measures, between which the two vacations are not The two vacations of the two vacations of the two vacations. of social benefits, the salaries of public officials or the desindexation of pension pensions.
Source: BFM TV
