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Parliament gives unanimous green light for extension to 15 days

The deputies definitively adopted the centrist bill on Tuesday. The issue of supporting families after the death of a child was the source of a crackdown by the presidential majority at the start of the year.

The Parliament definitively adopted, Tuesday, May 26, the centrist bill which increases the bereavement leave to 15 working days. The issue of supporting families after the death of a child was the source of a crackdown by the presidential majority at the start of the year.

MEPs voted by show of hands on the text, which was adopted with the support of all political groups. The vote was punctuated by standing applause, in an atmosphere tinged with emotion. “Today I felt a deep humanity on its benches, said MP Guy Bricout (UDI-Agir) after the vote. I think we have all let our hearts speak and that is exceptional. I hope there will be other moments like this that we will all share together “, added the elected official at the origin of this bill.

“Does one of us think that this text could have been a government initiative? Nobody, nobody …”, declared in the hemicycle of the National Assembly the centrist deputy Charles de Courson, moved to tears.

On January 30, the deputies of La République en Marche had rejected a bill establishing a “bereavement leave of 12 days in the event of the death of a minor or dependent child”, against five days then.

Faced with outcry, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron had risen to the front line on February 1: “The government is going to correct things so that humanity can return to efficiency”, he said. The leader of the deputies LREM Gilles Le Gendre had defended his group to have committed “a voting error”. “We did not anticipate that we would only retain from this text the question of days off”, he said.

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