It was a proposal carried by the Modem.
According to FranceInter, on the occasion of his visit to the Sirha fair in Lyon, dedicated to hotels, restaurants and food, the President of the Republic will announce this Monday morning that tips paid by bank card in the HCR sector (hotels and restaurants) will be tax-exempt from 2022. Emmanuel Macron should announce this change during a speech in the morning.
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Traditionally, tips are instead paid in cash, with customers depositing their change before leaving the establishment. But, here too, the evolution of payment methods is being felt: if many customers wish to pay a tip by credit card, professionals are more mixed: if the change can disappear in a pocket, payments by bank card are declared and imposed. In addition, the tip paid in currency declined during the health crisis, while the dematerialized payment gained ground. A shortfall felt by the employees.
The measure must therefore modify this situation, by adapting the tip system to modern payment methods.
Tipping by card will become more attractive to employers, customers and employees.
This change must also support employees in the hotel and restaurant industry, who suffer from harsh working conditions and low wages.
These professions suffer from a lack of attractiveness and they have seen tens of thousands of employees leave the ranks during the health crisis.
More than 120,000 people are missing, according to the Umih and the GNI, the main unions representing the sector.
What put in difficulty many establishments.
Negotiate for the branch or in companies?
This alone would not be enough to attract the recruits needed to fill the gaps. But it falls within the framework of broader discussions on the sector: discussions aimed at improving the attractiveness of these professions are taking place between employers and unions, and the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, indicated recently that she had asked the representatives of the tracks and a roadmap to support this sector which has taken the brunt of the health crisis. “
The branch minima, in this sector, are below the minimum wage. In terms of the attractiveness of the sector, I think this is a very bad signal,
”she said in particular.
If "
everyone must take their share
", including employers, according to the minister, the Modem proposes, according to
Les Echos
, to take advantage of the debate on the 2022 budget to tax tips in the HCR sector. "
It seems opportune to us to tax tips and to leverage the generosity of the French to strengthen the attractiveness of these professions
", explained the deputy (Modem) Jean-Noël Barrot to our colleagues.
Employers, for their part, remain cautious: on LCI, this Monday, the head of Medef blasted a "
national vision of the economy from Paris
", recalling that the results of the year differed for hotels and restaurants depending on the territories.
"
It is rather in companies that it happens,
" said Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, indicating that the local level would be more relevant than that of the branch to negotiate wages.
