This is a collateral effect that the government has decided to tackle.
Wanting to protect the French from wages that are too low, by establishing an income floor, many companies have made the minimum wage a benchmark for a large number of their employees.
Today, nearly one in five people in the non-agricultural private sector receives 1,398.69 euros net per month, the current level of the minimum growth wage (smic).
They were 17.3% in 2023, according to Dares, compared to only 12% in 2021. A proportion “much larger than our neighbors”, regretted this Tuesday, January 30, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, during his speech of general policy in the National Assembly.
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“So, yes, I can say it, we must de-emcardise France,” he added.
From the next finance bill, based on the proposals of parliamentarians, social partners and a certain amount of expert work currently being carried out, we will begin to reform this system.
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