Towards a law in favor of maternity pay for elected officials?

This is an expected promise from many elected officials. On February 12, the environmentalist mayor of Poitiers Léonore Moncond’huy announced her pregnancy and her intention to take maternity leave from March 15 to May 15. Aside from this issue, to date there is no compensation provision for elected officials on maternity leave, and Léonore Moncond’huy will lose an important source of income during her absence.

Take leave without loss of benefits

Therefore, the Minister Delegate for Territorial Communities, Dominique Fauresent a letter to the mayor of Poitiers, in which he declared himself in favor of a “legislative development” For “allow elected officials to take leave without loss of compensation”revealed theFrench media agency. A leave that would therefore concern women, but also men on paternity leave.

Currently, community cannot integrate the daily allowances paid by Social Security to elected officials who have ceased all professional activity to exercise their mandaterecalls Dominique Faure in his letter. “We will thus give a clear signal of our desire to allow elected officials to take leave without loss of compensation”the minister then wrote.

This issue should be addressed during future debates in the National Assembly and Senate, around a bill on creating a status for local elected officials. attractive “. The Chairman of the Law Committee of the Assembly Sacha Houlie has undertaken to table an amendment to the “correct inequality” brought to light by the mayor of Poitiers.

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