The successive rises in the minimum wage, caused by inflation, have pushed the minimum wages of many professional branches below the minimum wage.
“
110 out of 170 branches
,” said Olivier Dussopt this Friday morning, who indicated that he had convened the salary negotiation monitoring committee next week – made up of the social partners – to put pressure on the branches outside the nails.
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“
This is an opportunity to say that the government is committed to ensuring that the law is respected.
The law says that when there is a level of remuneration in a branch lower than the minimum wage, the branch must open negotiations.
Otherwise, these branches are subject to special monitoring
, he said on Europe 1.
We want to go further.
In the purchasing power law, we have provided for a provision which says that if a professional branch remains permanently with levels below the minimum wage, this opens the door to its restructuring and its merger with other branches, in this logic that the e have been pursuing a reduction in the number of branches for several years.
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For the Minister of Labour, it is
the “attractiveness
” of professions that is at stake. “
If you have 1, 2, sometimes 5 or 6 salary levels in a branch below the minimum wage, that means that employees who integrate these branches at the first level must wait 7, 8, 9 years to have hope of a remuneration higher than the smic.
There are sectors that are losing attractiveness for this
, ”he lamented, citing for example that of security and guarding.
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Under the effect of inflation, the minimum wage rose in one year by 5.9% according to Olivier Dussopt, ie “
as much as inflation
”.
In June, it indeed accelerated to 5.8% over one year, according to INSEE.