Recovery operation.
While fuel shortages, linked to refinery blockages which have been going on for more than three weeks, have caused a small wind of panic in the country and long queues at service stations, the time has come to resumption in parliamentary debates.
And therefore legislative.
As discussions on the 2023 budget have been underway since the beginning of the week in the National Assembly, several deputies from France insoumise (LFI) are seizing the ball and tabling a bill specific to the current situation.
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Bearing in mind that many French people, dependent on their car to go to work, are largely penalized by the blockages - which the LFI elected officials nevertheless support -, the latter want the lack of gasoline to be, for the employees, a reason absence from work.
According to the text of the rebellious elected official of Haute-Garonne Hadrien Clouet, “
the big industrialists are trying to pit citizens against each other
”.
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Accompanied by around twenty LFI deputies including Mathilde Panot and Raquel Garrido, the elected official wants to “
allow the social movement to express itself peacefully, by protecting precarious employees from the consequences of empty service stations.
“And to specify the salt of its reform in the Labor Code: it “
recognizes the
“
petrol shortage
”
as a reason for switching to telework, in the absence of substitute transport.
(...).
(and)
a right of paid absence, if the position is not teleworkable or the employer does not grant telework.
»
While he has not been a deputy for a few months, the one who remains the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon even publicly approved this proposal this Friday.
On Twitter, the former presidential candidate is waiting to see
"what the hypocrites who keep trying to pit the people against the employees are worth."
If the situation tends to improve slightly at the national level (28.5% of the stations experienced difficulties on Friday) - despite disparities according to the regions -, the CGT continues the blockages.
And this, despite the wage agreements voted by other more reformist unions.
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Insubordinate France has supported the strikers from the start.
Guest of France Bleu on Friday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon explained the reasons for his support for the movement.
According to him, "
there is a kind of convergence that can take place between, on the one hand, the action of the employees which, obviously, takes place in the company at the call of the unions, for which it is the responsibility .
And then what we call the people.
“The opportunity, wishing to recover for its benefit the grumbling of employees on the question of wages, to call for mobilization for its own march”
against the high cost of living
“next Sunday …