In an e-mail, trade unions and employers were surprised by the choice made by the government to exclude the temps of this device is exceptional bonus.
This is a “snag unfortunate to the principle of equal treatment”, for several union organisations and one employer federation. They decry the lack of “premium Covid” to caregivers interim who has worked in health institutions during the crisis of the sars coronavirus.
“Across the country, medical professionals and allied health interim volunteered and joined, without hesitation, the institutions of health problems,” remind of these organizations in a letter of 24 July, revealed on Friday by The World.
“When an exceptional bonus has been announced to recognize the dedication and hard work made during this period, all of these personal have logically thought that it would be granted to all of them,” added the signatories (CGT, CFDT, CFTC, FO, CFE-CGC, Unsa and Prism’employment, which encompasses all of the companies in the interim).
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In their letter, these organizations were surprised by the choice made by the government – in the framework of the project of finance law amendment (PLFR), adopted on 23 July by the Parliament to exclude temporary workers from this device.
Discrimination because of status
“as Soon as health facilities and medical-social, under statute, public or private, pay this bonus to their employees or permanent staff, temporary employees serving in these facilities must receive it in the same conditions”, they feel. “It seems to us, therefore, admissible nor legally, nor morally as the medical personnel working in the interim to be discriminated against because of their single status”, insist they.
This “exceptional bonus”, défiscalisée and exempt from social contributions, was announced in late march by Emmanuel Macron, who had boasted “a clear response and strong short-term” for caregivers, front line of the Covid-19.
In hospitals, the premium has been set at 500 euros for members of the hospital staff and 1500 euros for those who have worked in 40 departments most affected by the epidemic. In the long-term care Facility within the public hospital service, it is 1000 or 1500 euros according to the department.
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“The ‘premium Covid has been put in place to ensure that each institution can develop the commitment of its caregivers, physicians such as paramedics, in the face of the crisis,” stressed Friday the ministry of Health, saying he wanted to reward the employees of the establishments of health. “It covers the whole of the professionals of the institution, but does not extend nor to temporary employees or to service providers”, he argued.
