Some ministers and senators have put the subject of giving one public holiday per year for old age back on the table.
Concretely, this would mean, for employees, working seven hours without being paid once a year.
Economic columnist Pascal Perri delivers his analysis on LCI, Monday January 20.
The idea comes back to the table. This Sunday, January 19, Catherine Vautrin raised the proposal to put a provision in the budget which would require each French employee to work seven unpaid hours in the year. In an interview given to JDDthe Minister of Labor and Health Catherine Vautrin recalled that this solution had initially been included in the draft Social Security budget for 2025 last November, before being withdrawn.
Monday January 20, Pascal Perri delivered his analysis on the question on the LCI set. The economic columnist explains that the executive expects one “yield of two billion euros” each year thanks to this measure. He believes that we must move in this direction “because we have a Social Security budget which is seriously in deficit”. Every year, the hole grows by 18 billion euros.
Furthermore, Pascal Perri does not want to talk about a day worked “for free”. “That catches my attention. No, it’s not free, since there is an expectation of income. We’re doing it for us, it’s not for the neighbor”he explains.
-Find Pascal Perri’s entire column in the video at the top of this extract.