After 2.2% in October, the minimum wage will automatically increase by 0.9% in January due to the rise in prices.
Following the acceleration of inflation in November - 2.8% over one year - confirmed on Wednesday by INSEE, the monthly minimum wage will automatically rise to 1,603 euros gross for 35 hours per week on January 1, i.e. an increase of 14 euros compared to October 1.
Compared to January 1, 2021, this increase will be 49 euros gross.
The employee will receive 1,269 euros net per month, that is to say 38 euros more, one indicates to the Ministry of Labor.
The gross hourly rate will be 10.57 euros.
The minimum wage benefits each year from a mechanical increase which takes into account the inflation observed for the 20% of households with the lowest incomes between the last revaluation and the month of November.
The price increase taken into account this time only relates to the months of September, October and November.
According to a Dares study published on Friday, some 2.04 million workers, or 12% of private sector employees, had benefited from the 1% revaluation on January 1, 2021. The beneficiaries are more numerous in small businesses, among part-time employees and among women.
A boost "detrimental to the employment of the most vulnerable"
The government can choose to go beyond this automatic increase, but the panel of economists consulted before each increase spoke out last week against this possibility - as every time since its first opinion in 2008. These economists consider that a "boost" would be "detrimental to the employment of the most vulnerable people", especially since it could "no longer be offset by a reduction in employer social contributions, which reached the maximum threshold at the minimum wage level ”.
This argument exasperates FO, the CGT or even Solidaires who, in a joint press release, denounced a "committee of experts which always finds false reasons to discourage any salary boost".
Yvez Veyrier (FO) thus calls for a "real consideration" of the opinion of the unions and a "real debate on the level of the minimum wage".
[#Edito] That "this time the government does not stick to the recommendation of the expert group" (between 0.5% and 0.6% on January 1st!) But decides on a significant "boost"!
The FO claim is the #SMIC at 80% of the median salary (i.e. 2070 euros gross).
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- Yves VEYRIER (@YVeyrier) December 1, 2021
The CGT demands an increase in the minimum wage to the tune of 2,000 euros gross.
“The bonuses and the little perks are not enough.
What is authentic is the salary, ”repeats Philippe Martinez.
Branch meeting Friday
The unions were to make their arguments to the National Commission for Collective Bargaining, which met on Wednesday afternoon.
But they are unlikely to be heard at this meeting by the government, which favors other measures (energy check, inflation compensation…) to protect purchasing power.
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"We are careful not to increase the cost of labor to meet these purchasing power issues", declared Elisabeth Borne on November 30. The Minister of Labor is also counting on the pressure exerted on the forty or so branches which have minimum wages below the minimum wage to improve their wage scales.
The CFDT calls on the government to exercise more "coercion"
It will bring together trade unions and employers on Friday morning to take stock "of those who have progressed in recent weeks and the bad pupils", the ministry said.
The ministry hopes in particular that progress will have been obtained Thursday in the hotel and catering industry during a new negotiation meeting between professional organizations in this sector very concerned by low wages.
Laurent Berger (CFDT) called on the government on Wednesday to exercise more "coercion".
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At the same time as the revaluation of the minimum wage, "the government must tell all the branches concerned to negotiate a revaluation of their grids within three months, otherwise we will question the contribution reductions", he proposed. on LCI.
"It is not acceptable to stay on minimum wage for up to 15 years", insisted the unionist.
