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“The meal ticket, symbol of an obese welfare state”

CHRONIC – The over-indebted state has no reason to subsidize the meals of millions of employees. Employers should turn their participation in this gas plant into remuneration.

The government is preparing to take a decision. Will it extend the authorization to pay for groceries with restaurant vouchers, or will it refocus the system on its original scope, catering? The French overwhelmingly advocate the first option; and the executive, which does not want to multiply sources of discontent, should follow them. Much to the fury of restaurateurs. Thierry Marx, the president of Umih (Union of hotel trades and industries) described this option last week as « scandal ».

« Large retailers don’t need us to make margins », the media chief took offense, criticizing a system where we « strips one to compensate for the other ». The decision to extend the use of meal vouchers to food businesses dates from the Covid-19 pandemic, a time when working people, many of whom had become teleworkers, took their meals at home…

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