An epoch-making law in France

It's worth knowing!!

 

France’s parliament has passed a law allowing workers to give some of their days off to a colleague with a seriously ill child. The idea came from the case of a man whose colleagues donated 170 days while his son was battling cancer.

 

It was passed in the National Assembly in 2012 and has now made it through a final reading in the Senate.

It allows workers to donate days off anonymously to a colleague who needs to look after a seriously ill child.

The boss agreed that his colleagues could give him their days off when his 11-year-old son, Mathys, was confined to their home with cancer.

Mathys died in December 2011.

Some Socialists abstained on the vote, claiming that the law could run into legal problems, while the Communists and their allies voted against on the grounds that it lets employers off the hook of their responsibilities to employees in such a situation.

 

　ども。

　フランスで画期的な法律が正式に承認されたようです。その中身は、家族の中に、重病な病を持つ人のために、その人の同僚がその本人の為に自分の有給休暇を彼にあげて、看病に専念してもらうことが法律で認められるということ。

　もちろん、その人の人徳がないとありえない話ですが、実際にそういう話がフランスで起こり、法律上それができなかったことで、数年前に国会で議題に上り、数日前に正式に法律として認められました。その人の子どもは、２０１１年にガンで結局は亡くなってしまっているみたいなんですが、素晴らしい仕事仲間に恵まれた人なんでしょうね。

　自分ももし会社に勤めていて、親が倒れたときにそういう仲間がいて、「おれの有給お前にやるから、その分、母ちゃん（父ちゃん）の側にいてやれ」なんて言ってくれる同僚がいたら、泣いてしまうでしょうね。深い良い話ですね。