Paris (AFP)

LFI MP François Ruffin announced on Monday that he was withdrawing his bill to "stop the mistreatment" of cleaning women, which was to be examined by the Assembly on Thursday because the text was "emptied of its substance" by the majority.

"There is nothing more valid" in the version from the Social Affairs Committee, told AFP the elected official of the Somme, who refers to the engagement of Emmanuel Macron, at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, to support the "working people of France". And to launch: "Let the majority assume the vacuum!"

For her part, the speaker LREM on this text, Charlotte Lecocq regretted on Twitter that "the maintenance staff will have to wait to finally see the birth of the work obligation on non-shifted schedules".

According to her, François Ruffin "couldn't care less": "Media buzz, springboard for 2022, that is what his parliamentary mandate is really for him. I am disgusted," added the elected representative from the North.

In its initial version, the bill provided for a 50% increase in the hours worked between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., in order to "economically encourage" daytime cleaning.

The majority notably rejected this article in favor of another provision which goes "further" according to the elected LREM: it provides that a client who refuses to grant work during the day between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm "must justify his refusal ".

François Ruffin had thundered against a version which had become an "absolute zero", and voted against his own text in committee. He was to spend Thursday evening during a "niche" reserved for the group of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

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