Employers showed themselves satisfied Thursday with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s commitment not to increase taxes on businesses, while emphasizing that it is up to the social partners to develop the outlines of a future reform of the unemployment insurance.
The president of Medef clearly heard Mr. Attal’s red line, Wednesday evening on TF1, not to increase taxes on businesses, among the highest taxes in the world and which create jobs, Patrick Martin underlined in a press release.
It is also our red line and we will be vigilant to ensure that it is not crossed, he insisted.
Mr. Martin, head of the first representative organization of employers, stressed that the social partners will take up, when the time comes, a project for a new reform of unemployment insurance, as hoped by the Prime Minister. minister.
This reform is possible, he conceded, without reacting directly to the measures that Mr. Attal seems to want, but the objective of full employment that we share will first be achieved if economic activity returns to a satisfactory level.
It is obvious that public policies must support investment, activity and therefore employment, added Mr. Martin, while one of the causes of the sharp increase in the public deficit in 2023, 5.5% of GDP (Gross domestic product), is the drop in tax and social revenues, reflecting the economic slowdown.
The CPME, the second employers’ organization, also considered positive the desire not to increase taxes, and hoped that the commitment to completely eliminate the CVAE production tax would be kept by the end of the five-year term.
When France has more than three million compensated job seekers and, at the same time, business leaders have the greatest difficulty recruiting, it is essential to act to promote a return to employment, continues the CPME.
But it also underlines that it is up to the social partners to take the necessary measures.
She says she is in favor of returning to the minimum membership period to benefit from compensation, but does not wish to reduce the amount.
The CPME deplores that Mr. Attal did not mention the public debt or the reform of public action and the number of civil servants on Wednesday. Concerning only the expenditure of social systems will not be enough to restore public finances, she believes.