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(mg) The President of the National Council, Andreas Aebi (SVP / BE), decided with a casting vote that the National Council will maintain that employees can apply for reduced-time work subsidies retroactively from September 1. Alone: he had escaped. As his party, he actually wanted to vote “yes”, which would have meant removing this passage. A return request from Thomas Aeschi (SVP / ZG) was rejected with 100 to 91 votes. So the suppressor has consequences. Thanks to Aebi’s vote, the result was tilted between 98 and 97.
During the consultation in the first week of the session, this addition had only been achieved thanks to one vote, but at that time without a casting vote. The opponents raised the great administrative effort. It is true that Nicolo Paganini (CVP / SG) admitted that “it was already full of potholes” that there was a gap for fixed-term employment contracts between September 1 and the entry into force of the review. However, such a retroactive effect would imply “a considerable administrative effort for the administration, but also for companies.” Furthermore, the repercussions on the laws are “actually always problematic”. Many employees in the cultural sector would benefit from this measure.
“It’s a joke”
This reasoning is “a joke,” said Franziska Ryser (Greens / SG). In the cultural sector in particular, salaries are already low, so the City Council should not deny “these people a minimum income for September, October, November and December” on the grounds of the bureaucracy. Prisca Birrer-Heimo (SP / LU) made an urgent appeal to parliament: “We must not always do the minimum.” Otherwise, the Federal Council and Parliament would have to make regular adjustments.
The proposal now returns to the Council of States. He didn’t want to know anything about retroactive effect in a first round.
