{"id":484866,"date":"2025-10-09T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484866\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:38:10","slug":"french-government-proposes-increase-in-unpaid-sick-days-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484866\/","title":{"rendered":"French government proposes increase in unpaid sick days from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Plans are due to come into force in 2026<\/p>\n<p>\n        Some employers continue to pay sick workers until the current three-day waiting period is reached<br \/>\n        Subbotina Anna\/Shutterstock\n    <\/p>\n<p>The number of days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connexionfrance.com\/practical\/sick-pay-in-france-what-is-the-difference-between-an-arrt-de-travail-and-arrt-maladie\/733360\" target=\"_blank\" data-lab-font_weight=\"font-weight-bold\" class=\"font-weight-bold m-font-weight-bold\" rel=\"noopener\">statutory sick pay<\/a> kicks in could jump from three to six, the government has told unions.<\/p>\n<p>Some employers continue to pay sick workers until the current three-day waiting period is reached.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After this point, the state contributes up to half the cost of the employee\u2019s daily wage until they are fit enough to return to work.<\/p>\n<p>Other employers have insurance policies to cover the three days, or pay reduced wages.<\/p>\n<p>The government plans, which are opposed by both employers\u2019 trade bodies and unions, are due to come into force in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They could include decrees forcing employers to take out sick day insurance for workers.<\/p>\n<p>However, the level of opposition to the proposals may mean they do not progress further. Talks were due to resume after the summer holidays.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the Cour des Comptes, which oversees government spending and budgets, estimated that \u20ac900million would be saved from social security funds by such a measure.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of sick days taken in France has risen by 6.3% according to figures from the Caisse nationale d\u2019assurance maladie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before Covid the annual rise was 2.9%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans are due to come into force in 2026 Some employers continue to pay sick workers until the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-484866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115342599982041265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}