A year ago, the government announced that the number of hours of work required to obtaindaily allowances social security would be lowered, as part of the plan to fight poverty. It is now done, thanks to a decree published Saturday, January 31 in the Official Journal.
Until now, for an employee to benefit from daily allowances in the event of sick leave, maternity leave, paternity leave or disability leave, he had to have worked 200 hours during the three months preceding the cessation of job.
Since Sunday February 1, having worked 150 hours during the three months before the work stoppage will be enough to receive daily allowances from Social Security. In all, 600 hours per year will suffice, instead of 800 hours until then.
“This condition could deprive precarious employees of benefits, working very part-time or experiencing short employment contracts with periods of unemployment,” said the Ministry of Health in a press release. For the government, this measure “also responds to the concern to preserve the continuity and quality of life of cancer patients”. It is also part of “the government’s action for the promotion of real equality between women and men, because women are particularly exposed to precarious employment”, underlined the ministry, specifying that it “also contributes to improving the social coverage of entertainment workers, in particular women in maternity leave. »
Often isolated from the system, precarious workers, working part-time or experiencing short employment contracts interspersed with periods of unemployment had until then had difficulty justifying the 200 quarterly hours necessary to obtain daily allowances.
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