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 express themselves", after the coronavirus crisis. It "monetizes employees' rest days in the form of holiday vouchers for caregivers," explained LREM reporter Christophe Blanchet.
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An "unfinished" and "irrelevant" law
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 representative 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 of wages and means promised for the carers and whose "conclusions are expected in July".
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Among the socialists, Boris Vallaud expressed "unease" in the face of this "unsuccessful" and "irrelevant" bill, given the hospital's difficulties. According to Caroline Fiat (LFI), it is "not for citizens to thank 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 "cheek" of this "slightly obscene" LREM bill.