While this employee dividend measure is coming up against strong resistance from employers, the government is staying the course.
“
The employee dividend was proposed by the President of the Republic and it will be implemented.
We will put it in place
, ”said Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy and Finance, on BFM Business on Friday.
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The employee dividend is, indeed, a measure that was put forward by Emmanuel Macron during the presidential campaign to allow a better sharing of company profits towards employees.
But the discussions, started since the beginning of the year, between social partners on the sharing of value in business are proving to be delicate.
“An impossible negotiation”
“
It is an impossible negotiation because the members of the government and/or the members of the Renaissance party announced the results before the end
” of the debates, declared, in the middle of the week, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of Medef, at the during a press conference.
“
Renaissance announced that it plans to pass a law in the spring which would impose a generalized participation in companies with less than 50
” employees, which are not yet subject to the obligation to distribute profit sharing, explained the President of the first French employers' organization.
He added that the presidential party additionally foresees “
a much less clear system of participation in super-dividends
» in the event of exceptionally high profits made by the companies.
In addition, the French Association of Private Companies (Afep), which brings together 114 large groups, had already expressed, in mid-December, its "
skepticism
" about the establishment of a mandatory employee dividend, in addition to the distribution mechanisms of value already present.
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But despite this opposition from employers, the government persists and signs and sees in the compulsory employee dividend a means of better remunerating the French for their work while the pension reform requires them to work two additional years.
“
When we ask the French to make an effort by asking them to work two more years, we must at the same time guarantee them that they will be better paid
”, argues Bruno Le Maire.
