Often, early in the morning, coming from the Montparnasse district where he lived opposite the National Health Insurance Fund, Jean-Jacques Dupeyroux dropped off on rue des Italians, at the headquarters of the World, an article written by him. Inevitably it was published. Died in May 2020, at age 91, director of the magazine Social right from 1974 to 2011, this fierce secularist, who had notably worked on the generalized social contribution, did not like this formula, but “JJD” was incontestably “the pope of social protection”.
Whether it concerns Social Security, his passion, family policy, work accidents, labor law, the industrial tribunal – he had chaired the Superior Industrial Tribunal – or the right to strike, he had the art, with an often incisive pen and biting irony, of making a complex and austere matter simple and attractive.
Academics who were his friends had the rich idea of bringing together, in Selected works of social law (Dalloz, 850 p., €70), sixty-five articles by the professor, of different nature, posts and thesis papers, published in Social right, The world And Release. “He embodied Social Security law for many generations of students and professionalswrites in his preface Didier-Roland Tabuteau, vice-president of the Council of State. It has inspired many social policies. » “Man of sound and fury”this law faculty member, who taught for a long time at the Panthéon-Assas University, “knew how to defend with legendary tenacityrecalls Mr. Tabuteau, the causes that were close to his heart: equality between women and men, the protection of those forgotten by society, from prisoners to prostitutes, and more broadly the reduction of inequalities in resources and culture.
“Monumental failure”
From this bible of social law, we will retain a few nuggets. For the 50e anniversary of “Secu”, in 1995, “JJD” talks about “monumental failure” of Medicare because “the interests considered as priority were those of the medical profession and in no way those of the socially insured. The result, in the years that followed, was a dizzying enrichment of the former at the expense of the latter: it was the “golden age” of medicine, accompanied by a stagnation of Health Insurance of which it is not not sure she will ever get up again”.
During the Juppé plan, still in 1995, he castigated the project of “get rid of security social impact of deplorable union influence (…)which did not prevent many of those who, the day before, were loudly calling for strong unions, from applauding blissfully: strong unions, certainly, but on condition that they are good unions”…
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