Deputies and senators reached an agreement in a joint committee on Monday on the first part of measures in favor of purchasing power, which will be definitively adopted on Wednesday by Parliament, we learned from several elected officials.
This “emergency” bill in favor of purchasing power will be validated for the last time on Wednesday afternoon by the National Assembly and then the Senate and it includes 20 billion euros in expenditure.
This concerns the 4% increase in retirement pensions and several allowances with retroactive effect from July 1, 2022, the deconjugation of the disabled adult allowance (AAH) and still the continuation of the Macron bonus that can be paid by employers.
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.
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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 Senate also examines the draft rectified budget for 2022
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 “cancellation button” will only apply if it already offers an online subscription option.
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, alternate member of the CMP, criticized the agreement on Twitter: “Well LREM and LR negotiated everything upstream of 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 ".
In the Assembly, the elected LR and RN had voted for the bill, unlike the left.
Well #LREM and #LR negotiated everything before the joint joint committee.
So there will be at the start of the school year:
👉 bonuses and no salary increase
👉 no more exemptions from social security contributions
👉 American shale gas
👉 coal
There you go.
Nice summer.
#DirectAN
— Sandrine Rousseau (@sandrousseau) August 1, 2022
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.
This amending finance bill opens up 44 billion euros in credits, including 9.7 to finance the 100% renationalization of EDF.