MEPs lower the cost of overtime for companies with more than 250 employees

Debates on the Social Security budget continue in the National Assembly on Friday, November 7, after the adoption, the day before, of the reduction in the cost of overtime for companies with more than 250 employees. The deputies adopted two amendments to this effect from the head of deputies LR Laurent Wauquiez and the general rapporteur of the Social Security budget Thibault Bazin (LR), as part of the examination at first reading of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS). The cost to public finances would be “less than 150 million euros”according to the Minister of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, who spoke neither for nor against.

Some 1 500 liberal doctors ready for several days of strike and “exile”. Anesthesiologists and obstetrician-gynecologists from private clinics have promised to withdraw to Brussels in January, against a Social Security budget and parliamentarians who threaten their excess fees, which are growing sharply according to several reports. Included in the text examined this week in the National Assembly, and already adopted in committee, article 26 puts liberal doctors in turmoil.

The government will support measures in favor of pensions for civil servant mothers. The Minister of Public Service, David Amiel, made this known on Thursday. He said he had informed the trade union organizations during a Common Civil Service Council (CCFP), a social dialogue body, of his intention to support these proposals within the framework of the parliamentary debate around the budget. In the current system, women retired from the civil service benefit from a two-quarter increase for each child when calculating their retirement. The new measure would consist of a bonus which would increase the amount of pensions by 2% on average, the minister said.

New day of inter-union mobilization on December 2. “Now is the time to amplify our back-to-school mobilizations to put pressure on to obtain social, fiscal and environmental justice in this budget”write the CGT, FSU and Solidaires in a joint press release.