Adrien Quatennens, number two of LFI, and Boris Vallaud, spokesperson for the PS, on Wednesday demanded that the government " renounce " the unemployment insurance reform while an economic crisis linked to the coronavirus is looming.
“ With the unions, we denounced the unemployment insurance reform. Its entry into force on April 1 will be tragic for the tens of thousands of workers, including the most precarious, at jobs threatened by the Covid-19. The government must definitely give it up, ”tweeted Boris Vallaud.
Before him, Adrien Quatennens had called on the government to " give up the application of the reform " which "is not possible to apply in a context where the economy is in trouble ", he said. justified on France 2. " We must do everything so that the financial crisis does not come to translate into the real economy ", whether " the most fragile companies " or " the most economically fragile people ", argued the deputy BIA.
The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger asked the government on Wednesday to " renounce " as soon as possible the application of the new rules for calculating the unemployment benefit for precarious workers. FO and the CGT had already joined a first call from the CFDT to this effect on Tuesday. The change must take place on April 1, 2020, after a first wave, on November 1, 2019, which modified the rules to open compensation rights and recharge them.
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Adrien Quatennens also asked the Prime Minister “ 3 to 4 billion more on the table ” for the hospital “ to be able to recruit some 40,000 additional nurses to deal immediately with the health crisis linked to the coronavirus which comes to impact a hospital audience already very affected ”.
The number one of EELV Julien Bayou judged in a series of tweets " incomprehensible that the government does not respond to the requests of the emergency doctors and caregivers ", calling in particular to " recruit the tens of thousands of nurses who are missing " . " What was before the epidemic of a political divergence on the interest of the public sector now corresponds to an error in the management of the crisis, " he criticized.
The Ministry of Health had announced on March 3 that public hospitals and private clinics would recover 260 million euros corresponding to the " unused " credits in 2019, a sum which was added to the 415 million put in reserve in early 2019 and " Thawed " in December. The ministry had also said that it was going to " speed up the schedule for the payment of the endowments for 2020 ": 3.5 billion euros, or " part of the credits " voted, will be " paid as of April, and not at the end of May as is usually the case . "