After the vote on a bill in the Senate, a joint committee (CMP) must now meet with the deputies to find an agreement on the final version of the text. Doctors and labor lawyers alike are mixed on the benefits of such a measure which would change the rules on leave for sick children.
Often, the flu or gastrointestinal illness does not provide any warning. But a bill intends to modify the care of sick children. Senators have just voted on a text which provides for replace the medical certificate which justifies the leave for a sick child of an employed parent with a sworn certificate. This project, led by the Horizons deputy for Seine-et-Marne Frédric Valletoux, intends to meet the expectations of doctors in terms of reducing unnecessary medical certificates, affirms Capital pointing out that doctors spend, on average each week, between an hour and a half and two hours on requests for medical certificates, for all reasons combined.
The labor code today provides that employees wishing to take time off to care for their children benefit from three days of unpaid sick child leave. The new text adopted in the Senate is not unanimous, however. If parents want a medical certificate for a sick child, it is rare that they ask for it at any time other than when the doctor has examined the child, estimates Jerme Marty, general practitioner Fronton (Haute-Garonne) and president of the Union French for Free Medicine (UFML) in the columns of the economic site.
Stronger employee-employer distrust
A sworn statement is the first time I have seen it appear in labor law, wonders the lawyer specializing in labor law, Eric Rocheblave. The medical certificate seems to me to be a more appropriate proof, particularly for avoid greater employee-employer distrust.
A joint committee (CMP), which brings together deputies and senators, must now meet to find an agreement on the final version of the text. It has never been possible to reach a majority on the subject within the National Assembly.