The government wants to increase the number of waiting days for people on sick leave. In the private sector, employees are entitled to daily allowances from their health insurance plan after a waiting period of three days.
An extension of this period could allow the executive to make savings of up to one billion euros per year. To avoid impacting employees, the government would like these additional waiting days to be reimbursed by employers. For their part, the latter would like the establishment of “public order” waiting days, which neither Health Insurance nor companies would reimburse.