After briefly returning to the death of Michel Blanc, Saskia Violette’s team debated the possibility of introducing parental leave in the event of the death of a pet, which is already the case in certain countries. According to Alexis Carantonis, editor-in-chief at DH, “Pets are taking an increasingly important place in Belgian homes, and this type of initiative only demonstrates this.” “I think it’s a good idea. I have a dog who is an integral part of the family, even if he doesn’t sleep in my bed. Allowing employees to take time for their animals, because it makes them feel good and ultimately impacts their productivity, I find that very good. Then do we need to finance it? I’m not very sure, because then where does it stop?“
Soon bereavement or birth leave for your pet? “It would take three weeks to a month of leave when we welcome an animal”
Jean-Marc Ghéraille, antenna director on LN24, goes in this direction: “If we have to grant leave every time a cat dies, I think people will have a lot of cats“, he declares.
A new halfway house in Wallonia
For the second debate, Saskia Violette and her team returned to the opening of the first penitentiary halfway house in Wallonia which opened in Enghien. These houses are intended to support prisoners at the end of their sentence in a setting more similar to what they will experience outside. According to Guillaume Lys, criminal lawyer, “these halfway houses are a great idea. They are obviously totally insufficient because we are currently talking about five places in Belgium, but finally we are giving a little more room to the desire to reintegrate all these people. We must never forget that all prisoners will one day reintegrate into our society“.
The first transition house in Wallonia officially opened in Enghien
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