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Social Conference: Borne tackles wage scales

10/16/2023, 5:56:45 PM

Highlights: Social Conference: Borne tackles wage scales. Borne announced the creation of a High Commission for Remuneration, with broad prerogatives. No coercive measures were announced by the Prime Minister at the end of the day. Companies therefore avoid the conditionality of tax exemptions for sectors with minimum wages below the minimum wage. However, there was a strong demand from employee representatives. But their demands have not gone unheeded, as the head of government wants to show herself to be... a woman.


STORY - Professional branches that do not play the game of negotiation will be summoned to the Ministry.

To make "work pay better". This was the ambitious goal announced by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne for the first social conference of the Macron era, which was held on Monday in Paris.

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After several hours of expert analysis and workshops on the state of the country, the employers were satisfied when the unions simply spoke of a mixed record. In view of the particularly tense state of the social dialogue between the executive and the social partners, the results seem satisfactory for the Prime Minister, who was at the helm of the event.

Élisabeth Borne announced the creation of a High Commission for Remuneration, with broad prerogatives

No coercive measures were announced by the Prime Minister at the end of the day. Companies therefore avoid the conditionality of tax exemptions for sectors with minimum wages below the minimum wage, which was mentioned for a time. However, there was a strong demand from employee representatives.

However, their demands have not gone unheeded, as the head of government wants to show herself to be...

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