Established in the aftermath of the deadly heat wave of 2003 in order to fund the National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA), Whit Monday is theoretically today a working day like any other. If the device has been relaxed for employees in 2008, it has been extended since retired. He brings more than three billion euros each year. Le Point tells you what to know.
- How the solidarity day she born?
in the summer of 2003, 15 000 people, mainly elderly, die because of high temperatures. To mitigate a hazardous management of this crisis (the Raffarin government has long remained silent), Jacques Chirac takes over again by announcing a symbolic measure. A holiday will now be working to finance solidarity for the elderly.
The Law of 30 June 2004 states that “a day of solidarity is established to ensure the equity financing for autonomy of the elderly and disabled. It takes the form of an extra day of unpaid work for the employees and the contribution [employers to fund] the independence of the elderly and the disabled. “
After imagined making” worked “on 8 May, the government endorses the decision to make the French work on Whit Monday. Two reasons weigh in the balance: this is not a religious holiday (the Christian celebration takes place the previous Sunday). And, by definition, Whit Monday never falls on the weekend, which allows for constant resources. The text of the law specifies as well that “in the absence of agreement or agree the solidarity day is Whit Monday.”
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Who works? Who idle?
Both say right away, this “day of solidarity” is very unevenly applied. This has led to reform the system in 2008. Companies are now free to choose the date that will be worked by employees to fund the addiction. Here, however: this “day” can not fall on Christmas Day (or Good Friday in Alsace and Moselle, because of the Concordat)
According to a study of the temp agency. Randstad, about 70% of the French do not work today. Some sectors are nevertheless more affected than others. If employees of large groups retain the benefit of that day off, the situation is more mixed for SMEs. But all depends on the industry! The industry and agribusiness experience higher unemployment today than services. The shops operate almost normally. A situation close to a traditional holiday. Almost all administrations will, however, closed Monday. Like the schools, which, for parents, sometimes turns to the puzzle.
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How this day she earns money?
in exchange for this extra day worked, employers must pay 0.3% of their payroll to the national solidarity Fund for autonomy. This consideration is called solidarity contribution autonomy (CSA). Capital income, excluding popular savings booklet type A, are also subject to a levy of 0.3%.
- Those who do not work today they still participate in the solidarity effort?
Yes. The device allows employers since 2008 to modulate the system. Some opt for the removal of a day off or a reduction in working time (RTT). The principle is that employees work seven hours more a year without pay. At the SNCF, management decided to allocate one minute fifty-two seconds of overtime per day.
In addition, since 1 April 2013, pensioners and invalids subject to income tax are they too contribute up to 0.3% of their pensions to finance dependency in carrying out the additional contribution solidarity economy (CASA). The money collected will fund the law of “adaptation of society to the aging” entered into force on 1 January 2016.
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How the solidarity day she reports?
According to the national solidarity Fund for autonomy, solidarity day should bring more than three billion euros in 2016. Either 2.29 billion euros financed by employees’ contributions (CSA) and 726 million paid by retirees (CASA). Since its establishment in 2004, the manna reached 30 billion euros.
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How is the money used?
in 2016, the CNSA will redistribute the money to the benefit of older people (60% of the total) and disabled (40%). This will build specialized facilities (nursing homes, institutions for the disabled) and departments will fund the personal autonomy allowance, disability compensation benefits and departmental homes for disabled persons.
however, the additional contribution levied on retirement and pensions, is not yet fully used for concrete actions. Much of the EUR 700 million collected annually, since 2013, have not been used. The Association of Directors at the service of the elderly (AD-PA) estimates the prize pool to € 4.5 billion. The General Inspectorate of Social Affairs pound, meanwhile, the figure of 1.8 billion euros surplus “unused”. CNSA says it is “reserves [which may] be reallocated in the following years to related expenses [its] scope of intervention.”
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What is the impact on the national economy?
last year, the country’s overall economic activity fell 70% on average on Whit Monday, allowing to state that seven out of ten employees stayed at home. Things have changed. In 2005, 44% of employees worked on Whit Monday …
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But, in fact, that celebrates Pentecost?
the Pentecost ( “the fiftieth day” after Easter) is a Christian holiday which celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit that makes up the third part of what Christians consider under the term Trinity. According to the Gospels, the pilgrimage to the apostles in Jerusalem during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot received that day a divine inspiration (the Holy Spirit). The biblical narrative describes the thing as Language of fire landing on each of the disciples of Christ and to express them (or at least to be understood by their partners) in to languages other than Galilean.
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Since when this feast she was introduced
This Christian celebration is attested in some communities, since the second century. But it only really widespread in the fourth century.
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