Following the announcement by Jean Castex Thursday evening of the payment of an "inflation allowance" of 100 euros for the French earning less than 2000 euros net per month, Carrefour has decided to make an additional gesture.
Through the voice of its CEO Alexandre Bompard, the distribution group has indicated that it will double this aid for its employees concerned.
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Carrefour is committed to the purchasing power of its employees. Following the government's announcements, I decided to double the inflation allowance and increase it to 200 euros for all the employees concerned at Carrefour,
”Alexandre Bompard wrote on Twitter Thursday evening.
Announced by Jean Castex in the 20 Heures de TF1 newspaper in response to the soaring fuel prices and concerns about purchasing power, this tax-exempt bonus will be paid in one go, automatically, and will concern employees, the self-employed, the unemployed and beneficiaries of social minima, retirees, apprentices, as well as scholarship and tax-independent students. It should be distributed to employees at the end of December 2021, to civil servants in January 2022 and to retirees in February 2022. This one-off measure will cost the State 3.8 billion euros.
Last year, Carrefour was one of the brands to have responded to the government's call to pay an exceptional bonus of 1,000 euros to “
second-line
”
employees
in the
face of Covid-19, known as the “
Macron premium
”, of which were part those of mass distribution.
It had been distributed to 85,000 employees of the group.
