Pact retoqué responsibility. A “slap”, a “snub” – Ouest-France

Pact retoqué responsibility. A "slap", a "snub" – Ouest-France

retoque pact responsibility. In part at least. The Constitutional Council ruled “unconstitutional” an article Amending budget of Social Security in 2014, providing a sliding relief contributions paid by employees earning between a 1.3 and SMIC SMIC.

The measure, which should have benefited 5.2 million employees and 2.2 million civil servants for a total cost of € 2.5 billion, was one of the key elements introduced by the government for households in exchange for some 41 billion cuts promised tax burdens and businesses by 2017. These provisions “infringe the principle of equality” , say the Sages in their decision.

The government remains “determined”

In a statement, the Ministers of Finance and Social Affairs, Michel Sapin and Marisol Touraine, and the Secretary of State Budget Christian Eckert, reported taking note of the decision of the Constitutional Council. They add that the government “remains committed to increase the purchasing power of employees’ in low and middle income and will propose, in the context of financial laws for 2015 reviewed in the fall, “alternative measures of the same magnitude” .

A pact “burned” PCF

” a policy that forgets its values ​​on the left is a dead end “ writes spokesman Olivier Dartigolles PCF in a statement.

“retoquant In the first section of the amending budget for social security, which proposed a reduction of employee contributions, the Constitutional Council has reduced to ashes pact responsibility” , according to him.

A “snub” for CGT

“The Constitutional Council has imposed a snub to the government” writes the first union in a statement. Opposed to contribution holidays, whether or employer, CGT “reiterates its disagreement with a policy to a weakening of the social wage and endangers Social Security” .

A “slap” Jouanno

UDI Senator Chantal Jouanno sees a “slap to the government,” which she denounced a “default method” . There “a comprehensive methodological problem of a government that, for two years, made a request policy, taxed companies of roughly 30 billion euros and from now says I ‘ll return 30 billion by 2017 “.

“So we have a five year period, for businesses, is a white operation whose result is mass unemployment and long-term” , who is seeking the accused, in tandem with Yves Jégo, president of the UDI.

retoqué also Article 2

The Constitutional Council retoqué also part of Article 2 concerning the reduction of employer contributions for certain jobs at home.

He foresaw the doubling (from 0.75 euro to 1.5 euro per hour) September 1 for childcare and care for dependent or disabled elderly, relief contributions that since 2013 have individual employers.

However, this measure will be proposed as part of the social security budget for 2015 again, the government said. Council Decision does not preclude the enactment of the law, amputated both provisions.