Deputies and senators reached an agreement in a joint committee on Monday, August 1 on the first part of measures in favor of purchasing power, which will be definitively adopted on Wednesday by Parliament, AFP learned from several elected officials.
4% increase in retirement pensions and several allowances with retroactive effect from July 1, 2022, deconjugalization of the disabled adult allowance (AAH) and further continuation of the Macron bonus that can be paid by employers: this bill “emergencyin favor of purchasing power will be validated one last time on Wednesday afternoon by the National Assembly and then the Senate. It includes 20 billion euros of expenditure.
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Seven deputies and seven senators meeting in a joint joint committee (CMP) worked on Monday at the end of the day on the measures on which they did not agree after the first reading of the bill. Thus on the Macron bonus, the parliamentarians returned to the version resulting from the Assembly, which provides for a perpetuation throughout the private sector – and not only in companies with less than 50 employees – of this bonus exempt from social security contributions.
On the issue of overtime, in the sense intended by LR, companies with 20 to 250 employees will be able to see their employer contributions reduced by 50 cents per overtime hour worked. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said he was in favor of it. The parliamentarians have also kept the version of the Senate on the possibility of terminating a subscription electronically. Thus the obligation for the professional to set up a “cancel buttonwill only apply if it already offers an online subscription option.
Compromise
Finally, in a compromise between the two chambers, the duration of the exceptional arrangements for the supply of gas to France have been limited to four years. Green MP Sandrine Rousseau, substitute member of the CMP, criticized the agreement on Twitter: “Well LREM and LR negotiated everything before the joint joint committee. So there will be bonuses at the start of the school year and no wage increases, more exemptions from social security contributions, American shale gas and coal. So. Nice summer“.
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In the Assembly, the elected LR and RN had voted for the bill, unlike the left. The right-wing dominated Senate has also been examining since Monday afternoon at first reading the amended draft budget for 2022, which includes the second part of measures in favor of purchasing power. A CMP deputies-senators will meet on Wednesday evening on this more thorny text, the final adoption of which is hoped for by Sunday. Continuation of the tariff shield on energy and the fuel discount, revaluation of the index point for civil servants… This amending finance bill opens up 44 billion euros in credits, including 9.7 to finance the renationalisation to 100% EDF.
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