Purchasing power: deputies and senators reach an agreement on first part of measures

The “emergency” bill includes 20 billion euros in spending, it will be validated one last time Wednesday by the National Assembly, then by the Senate.

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Deputies and senators arrived on Monday 1 er July, at a Agreement in joint joint committee (CMP) on the first part of measures in favor of purchasing power . The text will be validated one last time Wednesday afternoon by the National Assembly then by the Senate.

Increase of 4 % of retirement pensions and several allowances with retroactive effect at 1 er July, deconjugalization of allocation to disabled adults (AAH) and continuation of the “Macron premium” Being paid by employers: this “emergency” bill in favor of purchasing power includes 20 billion euros in spending.

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Seven deputies and seven senators gathered in CMP worked on Monday at the end of the day about the measures on which they did not agree after the first reading of the bill. Thus, for the “Macron premium”, parliamentarians returned to the version resulting from the Assembly, which provides for sustainability throughout the private – and not only in companies with less than 50 employees – of this premium exempt from social contributions .

CMP Wednesday for the second part of measurements

On the issue of overtime, in the sense desired by the Republicans (LR), companies of twenty to two hundred and fifty employees will be able to see their employer contributions reduced by 50 cents per additional hour worked. The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said he was favorable.

The parliamentarians have also kept the version of the Senate on the possibility of electronically terminating a subscription. Thus the obligation for the professional to set up a “termination button” will only be required condition that it already offers an online subscription faculty. In a compromise between the two chambers, finally, the duration of the exceptional devices for the supply of France in gas was limited to four years.

The ecological deputy Sandrine Rousseau, substitute member of the CMP, a Criticized the agreement on Twitter :” Well LREM and LR negotiated everything upstream of the joint joint commission. So there will be at the start of the school year and no increase in wages, more exemptions from social contributions, American shale gas, coal. That’s. That’s. Bel summer “. In the assembly, the elected LR and the national rally had voted for the bill, unlike the left.

The Senate, dominated by the right, has also examined since Monday afternoon at first reading the project of budget rectified for 2022, which includes the second part of measures in favor of purchasing power. A CMP will meet on Wednesday evening on this more thorny text, the final adoption of which is hoped for by Sunday.

/Media reports.