I don't know what's going through the head or the twisted mind, that's the least we can say about those who lead us.
Their latest brilliant concept?
Work “for free” 7 hours a year!
Let's talk semantics first.
Working for free is, minus the whipping, the definition not of wage labor but of slavery or serfdom.
Thinking of imposing “free” work on those who already work, moreover, is an obvious social and moral insult thrown in the face of the people.
I am rather liberal in the sense of freedom of individuals, freedom of choice, freedom to enter into contracts, etc.
Telling me that I have to work for free is also a liberal aberration.
In liberalism, in capitalism nothing is free and certainly not people's work!
In the past there was talk of eliminating a public holiday, of a day of “solidarity”. Obviously the result is identical. You work more without a pay increase, but the system had the decency to spare you the provocation of saying that you had to work “for free”.
Here is what Le Figaro reports (source here)
“Senators tabled an amendment to the Social Security budget on Wednesday aimed at increasing annual working hours by seven hours, in order to free up 2.5 billion euros for the autonomy branch.
Rather than eliminating a public holiday, senators had another idea to find additional revenue. As part of the debate on the 2025 Social Security budget, the social affairs committee of the upper house tabled an amendment on Wednesday aimed at making French people work “for free” seven hours a year. The text, tabled by the general rapporteur of the commission, the centrist Élisabeth Doineau, says she wants to strengthen “the financing of the autonomy branch by means of an increase of seven hours in the annual working time, for full time, of people in employment, in the private sector as well as in public services”.
“It’s not a public holiday, it’s not November 11 that we’re reducing, we’re well into working hours,” said Senator LR Philippe Mouiller and chairman of the Social Affairs Committee during of a press conference organized on Wednesday, devoted to the presentation of amendments to the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) for the year 2025. Questioned on this subject Thursday morning on Sud Radio, the Minister of the Economy Antoine Armand deemed the proposal “interesting” and “judicious”. “We are going to have the debate, we have to look at the details,” he added, assuring that the government was going to “study” this avenue which goes in the direction of “working more”.
The implementation of this measure would be left to the discretion of companies or branches, insist the senators. “It can translate into one day per year, it can translate into 1 hour 40 minutes per month,” indicated Philippe Mouiller. “The idea is that there is a debate with the social partners on the application of the principle,” said the senator. “Total flexibility will be left to those on the ground to define (its methods of accomplishment) according to their needs and their organization”, supports the amendment, which evokes a “contribution of solidarity through work”.
In exchange for the benefit of this “free” work, employers would see their solidarity contribution for autonomy paid to Social Security increase from 0.3% to 0.6%. Enough to allow Social Security to free up around 2.5 billion additional euros, calculate the senators, who want to see these resources allocated exclusively to the autonomy branch. And this, “in order to help it meet its growing expenses in terms of assistance to dependent elderly people or people with disabilities, in a context of inevitable aging of the French population”.”
Put those who don’t work to work!
This is the message to send to our kind senators, to our kind deputies. Write to them or make their copy of this article.
We must put to work those who, by the millions, do not work, because for many, the conditions of inactivity are identical to the conditions of work, the fatigue of work and the boss less… So we must not be surprised by the economic collapse of our country.
We will never, I mean NEVER, recover France by making those who already work and pay for everything work more each year (working hours), and always longer (retirement).
We will turn this country around by putting the 6 million people who aren't there to work.
We will just exhaust those who are already working and who will end up throwing in the towel to join the ranks of those on assistance.
We are walking on our heads, and that is why we are walking on the debt.
Charles SANNAT
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