how could this “solidarity contribution” be applied?

It is an amendment, voted on during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in the Senate, which is causing a lot of noise. Submitted as part of the Social Security financing bill, it aims to establish a “solidarity contribution”i.e. 7 additional hours of work during the year, unpaid for employees. If left-wing senators denounce a «provocation»those from the center and the right affirm that it is essential to redress France's flagging accounts. “It’s not necessarily out of joy that we make this proposal, it’s always complicated […] but it’s useful, today we have to find ways”details Élisabeth Doineau, of the centrist Union, general rapporteur of the Social Affairs Committee.