2024-11-22 13:00:00
SEVERIN MILLET
In 2023, the government has decided that workers will stay in their jobs longer by raising the retirement age. From 2025, they could be asked to work seven hours of overtime per year. And this, without remuneration. This is, in any case, the wish of the Les Républicains senators and the centrist Union parliamentary group, in the majority at the Luxembourg Palace, who adopted, on Wednesday, November 20, an amendment along these lines, during the examination of the draft Social Security financing law. Their initiative does not come out of nowhere: for several weeks, the debate on increasing working hours has been relaunched, in particular by figures from the right and the center right, but also by supporters of Emmanuel Macron.
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Gérald Darmanin helped to set in motion this old sea serpent which emerges, intermittently, on the French political scene. ” We can (…) definitively end the thirty-five hours in the private sector and (…) spend thirty-six or thirty-seven hours in the public, of course paid accordingly”declared the Renaissance deputy from the North, in the columns of Echos from October 7. Within the government, the Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand, develops a relatively similar speech, emphasizing the need to “work more”. Their idea, also supported by other personalities – belonging to the Renaissance group in the National Assembly – consists of saying that to finance social protection or improve our public accounts it is necessary to increase activity, which will stimulate contribution revenues. and taxes.
This path has just been taken up by the senatorial majority with a very specific objective: to provide new resources to old age policies. The measure approved on Wednesday at the Luxembourg Palace is inspired by the “solidarity day” created in 2004: it resulted in an unpaid increase in annual working time of seven hours, in exchange for a contribution, equal at 0.3% of the payroll and paid by employers to the National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy. In the provision approved in the Senate, a “total freedom” is left to field actors to define the “modalities of accomplishment” of the levy, which would release 2.5 billion euros per year in favor of the “autonomy branch”.
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