The National Assembly voted Tuesday evening a LREM bill allowing employees to "give" leave in the form of holiday vouchers to caregivers, a text deemed "irrelevant" even "a little obscene" by the left opposition, given the difficulties of the hospital.
This measure, adopted at first reading before its examination in the Senate, would allow the "solidarity of the French to speak out", after the coronavirus crisis. It "monetizes employees' rest days in the form of holiday vouchers for caregivers," explained LREM reporter Christophe Blanchet. But this device, which will have to be specified by decree, does not “replace the large-scale measures necessary to give more means” to the hospital, underlined this elected official of Calvados.
For the Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud, "this act of generosity will at the same time contribute to the revival of the tourism sector very strongly affected" by the epidemic. In parallel, the minister in her turn insisted on the calendar of the "Ségur de la Santé", supposed to concretize the increases in wages and means promised for the carers and whose "conclusions are expected in July".
"Cheeky" proposition
Among the socialists, Boris Vallaud expressed "unease" at the face of this "unfulfilled" and "irrelevant" bill, given the hospital's difficulties. According to Caroline Fiat (LFI), it is "not for the citizens to thank the staff, but for the State". Rather, she proposed to the French to "ask a day of RTT" to "demonstrate" on June 16, a day of mobilization of unions and hospital collectives.
The communist Pierre Dharréville castigated the "pellet" of this "slightly obscene" LREM bill. "You believe that because you will offer holiday vouchers, you will make people forget" the management of the crisis, launched the sovereignist Nicolas Dupont Aignan.
While indicating that his group was going to support the text, the ex-LREM and "caregiver" Annie Chapelier (Ecology Democracy Solidarity) regretted a "measure". "It is a gesture, a modest mark to show our deep gratitude", reacted for its part Agnès Firmin Le Bodo (Agir Ensemble) to defend the measure. Supported by elected officials from different sides, the elected LR Maxime Minot criticized the LREM deputies for "dishonest plagiarism" and a "pale copy", stressing that he had tabled a bill on March 22.
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