Joint Collaborating Status: Bill

Joint Collaborating Status: Bill

Christian JACOB, Minister for SMEs, presented to the Council of Ministers a draft law extending the status of collaborating spouses to the wives of craftsmen and traders who have often worked for years and who until then found themselves without pay or retirement. Interviews with Sylvie CAPOT in Moncrabeau in Lot et Garonne who works on her husband’s farm with the status of collaborating spouse. [Source: Documentation France 3] Introduced this morning by Christian Jacob, a bill extends the status of collaborating spouses to the wives of artisans and traders who have often worked for years and who until then found themselves without pay or retirement. They will now have to be declared. This status already existed for women farmers.

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File : Equality Women Men

Publication date : 13 April 2005