the Senate votes for a gesture in favor of pregnant civil servants | EUROtoday

The measure would undoubtedly have been welcomed by the final secretary of the CFDT Civil Services, Mylène Jacquot, who died instantly on Friday December 12 on the age of 60. Faithful amongst different issues to the protection of the rights of girls civil servants, she would nevertheless actually have judged it inadequate. As a part of the examination of the 2026 price range, the Senate adopted an modification on Saturday geared toward compensating for the discount in sick go away compensation for pregnant girls within the public service. Only partially, the unions remorse. The measure should nonetheless be definitively authorized by Parliament.

The discount determined in the beginning of 2025 in compensation for short-term stoppages “could have had unfavorable consequences” for pregnant girls pressured to cease working, the Lecornu authorities conceded. Since the reform and like all public workers, they now solely profit from continued remuneration at 90% within the occasion of sick go away in comparison with 100% till then. That “weakens them during the period of pregnancy where cessation may be necessary for the health of both the woman and the unborn child”, admitted the manager.

The adopted modification thus extends from two to a few weeks the utmost length of “prenatal pathological leave” that pregnant civil servants can take from the second they declare their being pregnant till the beginning of their maternity go away and which offers for 100% compensation. The value of the measure is estimated at 4 million euros over a full yr. “This provision allows them to be better protected”, defined the Minister Delegate in command of the general public service and State reform, David Amiel.

While stopping a lack of earnings, it makes it doable to higher follow actuality, he added: pregnant civil servants are topic to a mean of seven days of sick go away along with their present two weeks of pre-partum go away. “We have worked a lot with the unions on this subject”, added the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, earlier than paying tribute to the chief of the CFDT Public Functions. “The measure was born from an in-depth social dialogue that Mylène Jacquot brought, she owes her a lot and women in the public service will owe her a lot”she emphasised.

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