Sick: The Government Sets Up a Day of Waiting in The Audience and Adds in The Private

Sick: the government sets up a day of waiting in the audience and adds in the private

The government decided Tuesday to establish a first days of deficiency in the public service, and a fourth in the private sector, before the payment of per diem disease. Unions have found these measures “unacceptable”, the CFDT demanding their “immediate withdrawal”.

In late October 2009, the government had expressed opposition to an amendment to add a fourth day of deficiency in the private sector. But it was rejected by MPs when considering the Bill of financing Social Security 2010 (PLFSS 2010).

In a statement, the ministers Xavier Bertrand (Labour), Valérie Pécresse (Budget) and François Sauvadet (Public) “proposed the establishment of a fourth day waiting period in the private sector” which is expected to save 200 million. Moreover, they propose, “in fairness, the institution of a day waiting in the three public functions.”

The decision to add a fourth day waiting period not covered by Social Security for private sector employees had been taken by the government after formally abandoning the principle of a 6% decline in per diem provided for in the project law initial funding of Social Security in 2012.

Tuesday morning at the meeting of the UMP group in the Assembly, Prime Minister Francois Fillon had been favorable to the creation of one day off for employees in case of sickness.

“We had this morning the debate on the waiting period” in the public sector, said at a press conference the leader of UMP deputies, Christian Jacob, at the end of the meeting hedomadaire. “The point we found ourselves in a unanimous, was to say we will spend a day waiting period in the public sector throughout the treatment, since there were other assumptions who were not put on premiums, “he said.

However, he noted, “there are some officials who have an average of premiums which represent 20% of the treatment, but if you take the National Education, there is no premium or very little” .

As to why waiting periods were not aligned in the two sectors, Mr. Jacob argued “an important difference: in the private sector, you have 75-80% of the days of waiting that are supported through collective agreements or branch agreements, so they are not the responsibility of the employee but the employer. ”

“In the public sector, if we say that the employer supports it, that means for the state, it does not perform any economy,” he said.

The CFDT has reacted by demanding “the immediate withdrawal of measures designed to address the health of our citizens.” “Again, on behalf of the resorption of the debt and deficits, the government intends to charge employees the cost of the crisis of a system that strongly supports”, for its part, denounced the CGT. “Accused of being too sick, they would suffer a further decline of their rights to social protection.”

“The government continues its commitment to pay for the crisis to employees of private and public, under the pretext of hunting economies,” in turn denounces the Federation of Trade Unions Unit (FSU). For the federation, “the name of a so-called ‘fairness’, it takes the rights of all employees down by proposing to extend the days still waiting in the private sector and to establish a day in the public. This is unacceptable. This is not to create a waiting period in the audience but to remove the private market which is fair “.

Two years ago, the introduction of a fourth day of deficiency in the private amendment proposed by the UMP deputy Yves Bur, Rapporteur of the Social Security Financing Bill, had caused an outcry, before being released October 30, 2009.

“The government does not support this amendment,” explained Eric Woerth, Minister at the time of the Budget, two days earlier in the session of questions to the government in the National Assembly. “But what is meant by Mr. Bur is that sick (…) We need to increase on it continue to be vigilant,” he added.