The FDSEA and young farmers (YA) of the Yonne call to block the A6 and A5 highways Friday in the early evening.
The FDSEA and young farmers (YA) of the Yonne call to block the A6 and A5 highways early Friday night, worried about a possible abolition of contribution holidays for seasonal workers. they announced this Thursday, November 22 in a statement.
"By eliminating the exemptions for seasonal jobs, the presidential majority condemns to death the small rural jobs in France" and "threatens 7,500 seasonal agricultural jobs in the Yonne" , denounced the agricultural unions.
"While Yellow Vests are already on the street" the JA and the FDSEA "call to block the A6 and A5 highways Friday, November 23 in the early evening," according to their release.
The Senate, right and left unanimous, had removed mid-November a provision of the draft Social Security budget for 2019 that worried farmers, thus returning to the scheduled end of this specific device TO / DE (casual workers / seekers). jobs).
But after the two chambers disagreed in the joint committee, the text returned to the National Assembly, where "the majority of deputies withdrew from their validation of the system (...) that allowed rural workers to find jobs. seasonal, " according to the unions.
"The sectors that employ a lot of employees are directly affected and will no longer be able to fight against competition from European countries that do not have the same social policy as France," the statement said.
Several hundred farmers had already demonstrated in September in the south of the country against the removal of these exemptions.