After the outcry over the initial refusal to extend the leave for the loss of a child, last Friday, the LREM majority in the National Assembly will "very quickly" introduce a bill to better support and "repair" this "heavy" error, said on Monday the deputy Olivia Grégoire.
The Minister of Labor "Muriel Pénicaud will, with Adrien Taquet, this week, tomorrow, receive all the associations concerned, discuss with Medef, the unions, so that we can offer better," said MP LREM on CNews.
"We will offer better, and very quickly"
"We will repair our error and when we make such a big mistake, one recognizes it, two we fix it quickly, and three we are better said, we propose better, we will propose better, and very quickly", a- she assured.
We made a mistake on the PPL #deuilenfant: we recognized it, we will repair it quickly and we will do better than what was expected since we already had the idea of offering more comprehensive support through a solidarity fund national #MatinCNews pic.twitter.com/EMQKmK6qNT
- Olivia Gregoire (@oliviagregoire) February 3, 2020According to Olivia Grégoire, the LREM deputies will "propose for example a bill that is ready", which will provide for "these 12-day holidays but more generally to better support the parents to whom this drama happens, with the creation in particular of a public fund that would support parents in difficulty. ”
Recognizing a "collective error", she however called for "a little humanity in the treatment of deputies", of which "some" are, according to her, "concerned by these tragedies".
"We will fix things" and "we will take advantage of the debate in the Senate to be able to rectify things," said government spokesman Sibeth Ndiaye on France 2, recognizing "an error of political appreciation" and "A poor assessment of the political situation".
"Go beyond just holidays"
“We have to go beyond just holidays because it is not the only subject. It is necessary to improve the psychological accompaniment of the parents, it is necessary to better take care of the funeral expenses ", specified on RMC and BFMTV Adrien Taquet, the Secretary of State for the Protection of childhood, who wishes that" national solidarity take its share in addition to the companies ”.
Emmanuel Macron had intervened himself on Saturday to put an end to the controversy. After the initial refusal to extend this bereavement leave, Thursday at the National Assembly, the Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud admitted a "mistake" and committed "to find in the next few days solutions to get this respite time from 5 days today to 12 days ”.
"A form of cold technocracy"
But the government's reversal did not prevent another round of criticism on Monday.
"It is Bercy who runs this country", "a form of cold technocracy", denounced on LCI the MEP EELV Yannick Jadot, saying that "we are governed by people who know nothing about life, who know nothing about the difficulties of French women ”.
On the leave #deuilenfant
🗣 @ yjadot from @ EELV:
"We don't rectify the decision because it is inhuman, we do it because there is a form of turmoil in the country (...) Yes, there is a form of insincerity from this government"
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"Even Medef, Ms. Parisot and Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, said" obviously we are with our employees when they experience this tragedy, "" said Lydia Guirous, member of the political bureau of the Republicans, on Sud Radio, in criticizing an initial "scandalous" vote and "a form of inhumanity" by LREM deputies.
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