The Senate, with a majority on the right, perpetuated Monday evening with the support of the government the raising to 7,500 euros of the ceiling for tax exemption for overtime, voted by the National Assembly for 2022.
The High Assembly also voted, this time against the advice of the government, to make it possible for companies to buy back RTT days from employees.
We are in the middle of the night in August to bury the 35 hours, accused the ecologist Thomas Dossus, the socialist David Assouline speaking of a coup.
The National Assembly voted last week for an increase in the tax exemption ceiling for overtime for the year 2022 alone, as part of the debates on the amending finance bill.
By examining the text in turn at first reading, the Senate voted a show of hands for an amendment by the general rapporteur Jean-Franois Husson (LR) adopting this enhancement.
The idea of raising the tax exemption ceiling from 5,000 to 7,500 euros is going in the right direction (…), we are ready to make this tax exemption for overtime hours, increased to 7,500 euros, definitive, had declared the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, ahead of the debates.
For the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal, it is fully in line with the desire to revalorize work.
The rapporteur has put forward an interesting response for employees, for companies, for France. In addition to a gain in purchasing power, it can also be a solution to the problem of labor shortage encountered in several sectors, he developed.
Socialists and Communists, on the contrary, wanted the article to be deleted.
The socialist Rmi Fraud castigated the government’s refusal to move towards a real salary increase and a way to return to the 35 hours without assuming it.
Cline Brulin (CRCE, communist majority) saw in it a poisoned gift for employees. We are faced with a social regression, added Pascal Savoldelli.
Currently, overtime is tax-exempt up to a ceiling of 5,000 euros per year, with a maximum of 220 hours worked over a year, excluding branch, company or specific collective agreement.
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The Senate also voted, under the vehement protests of the left, the perpetuation of the article opening the possibility for the companies of repurchasing with the employees the days of RTT.
The vote was won by 144 votes against 116.
The measure had been voted by the Assembly for 2022 and 2023.
Mr. Attal affirmed that the government wanted to maintain the temporary nature of this system at this stage.
For the Minister, as it is a new device, its evolution should go through a little consultation with the social partners.