THE QUESTION.
Will workers be willing to sacrifice days off to inflate their pay?
Guest of the program "
France in the eyes
" on BFMTV last week, Valérie Pécresse unveiled her proposals for
"a shock of purchasing power".
The LR candidate for the presidential election, who answered questions from the French, notably proposed to “
convert the RTT into unlimited salary, exempt from employer charges
”
.
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“
You know that today, you can convert your RTT into wages, but companies still pay the employer's contributions so they have no interest in buying them back.
They must buy back 110 which is worth 100
”, affirmed the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy
.
“
There are a lot of RTTs that are not taken and a lot of French people who would like to convert free time into salary so that they can earn more
,” she added.
The contender for the Elysée thus took up the formula hammered out by Nicolas Sarkozy during the 2007 presidential campaign:
"You work more, you earn more".
But how would this device work?
Would reducing the charges on RTT days paid to employees be enough to encourage companies to accept this system and generalize this practice?
How many French people could this measure concern?
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