Minister Marc Fesneau said on Sunday that the government and the majority may not have had sufficient "time back" on the proposal to extend leave after the loss of a child, calling for a response "without demagoguery" . Emmanuel Macron intervened himself 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 the LREM deputies are ready to reconsider their position.
Marc Fesneau estimated on Franceinfo that this vote on Thursday, which caused an uproar from the extreme left to the employers, "must question us collectively", but not "in the search for scapegoats". "It is good that the President of the Republic can intervene when subjects can arouse emotion, it does not bother me at all," assured the Minister (MoDem) of Relations with Parliament.
"A very global subject"
"Recognize that there is an error, it is not worth beating around the bush", he added, stressing however the limits of the examination of such a text, proposed by the group UDI -To act, within the framework of its parliamentary “niche”. The centrist bill "did not deal with the issue of people working in the public service", only concerned minors, and did not deal with "long-term support".
Mourning a child is "a very global subject, which requires us to think about it collectively," according to Marc Fesneau. It is "not a question of money", he assured, while certain points fall under the employing enterprise of the parent, others of "national solidarity". Should the leave go from five days to twelve, as proposed by the UDI-Agir? "I don't know if it's twelve, if it's twenty" because we have to analyze in particular "the time of administrative procedures" and see how for parents it can happen "in the best possible conditions"
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Government admits "error" after Assembly rejects "bereavement of child" leave extension
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The National Assembly narrowly rejects the extension of the leave for bereavement of his child
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