DECRYPTION – France found the implementation of the directive too costly. She got a reprieve.
It is now official: France has implemented in a truncated way the European directive aimed at improving the balance between private and professional life. While the rules of this text adopted in 2019 were to be applied no later than August 2 in all Member States, Paris sent the Commission a notification of partial transposition.
France thus ignores the main element of this legislation, remuneration at a “adequate levelof parental leave, aimed atincrease incentives for workers, especially men, to take time off“. Not to be confused with maternity or paternity leave, parental leave, which is less paid, can be taken over longer periods, to allow parents to take care of their young children.
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There is certainly nothing illegal about the partial transposition carried out by France: during the negotiations, the government, which feared the “potentially explosive costsof the project, was…
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