From superprofits to the abolition of the fee, via overtime and the monetization of reduced working time days (RTT), several feverish outbreaks animated Monday evening in the Senate the discussion of the draft amending budget, which will continues on Tuesday.

In this second part of the measures to support purchasing power, the Upper Assembly dominated by the right evacuated from the outset a taxation of the “superprofits” of large groups.

On the other hand, it voted, this time against the opinion of the government, the perpetuation of the possibility for the companies to repurchase with the employees the days of RTT.

And from the outset the ulcerated left made its dissatisfaction heard.

“We are in the middle of the night in August to bury the 35 hours”, accused the ecologist Thomas Dossus, the socialist David Assouline speaking “of a coup”.

Two days earlier, 16 personalities including environmentalists Yannick Jadot and Eric Piolle had already denounced as "a Trojan horse of social regression" the possibility for companies to buy back RTT days from employees, adopted on 22 July at the Assembly.

In a column published on the

JDD

website , they felt that this measure, a proposal by LR deputies as part of the amending finance bill, "deals an unprecedented blow to the 35-hour week".

"It's offering to 'work a lot more to earn little'"

Like the left in the Assembly, they castigate a provision which "is mainly used to avoid dealing with the real subject of purchasing power: wage increases".

These personalities, including union representatives from the CFE-CGC and the CFDT Cadres, see in it "a powerful lever for the employer, allowing him to refuse the allocation of rest days by arguing that they are paid, in the face of to an employee torn between his need for rest and the improvement of his purchasing power".

A “relative improvement, moreover, because offering to pay RTT increased to 10% rather than overtime increased to 25%, is to offer to” work a lot more to earn little “”, they write.

The Reduced Working Time (RTT) system allocates days or half-days of rest to employees whose working time exceeds 35 hours per week, which currently disappear if they are not taken.

Redemption is only possible by company or branch agreement or in specific cases.

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