CNS News
February 17, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
By Staff, Associated Press
Paris (AP) - France's lower house of parliament unanimously passed a law Tuesday granting government payments to those who take time off work to care for dying relatives in their last weeks of life. French law already allows people to take up to six months of unpaid leave from their jobs to care for a dying family member. The new bill would allow people who leave work in such circumstances to receive euro49 ($62) a day for up to three weeks from the government. Unusually, the law enjoyed across-the-board support by legislators on left and right in the National Assembly. It now goes to the Senate, where it is likely to pass. The law's authors estimate the bill would affect about 20,000 families a year and cost a total of euro20 million ($25.2 million).
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