Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux: “Employees will be better associated with profits”

“From the end of the Second World War, the idea of ​​the association of employees with the results of the company made it possible to concretize the aspiration for a new model of society.” It is with this reminder that begins the text of the agreement on which the social partners agreed on Friday evening, at the end of their final negotiation session on the sharing of value within the company. Employers and unions had been working on it for several months. And had little choice but to agree not to lose control. In the fall, in fact, the debate had heated up against a backdrop of superprofits and inflation. Parliamentarians and the executive all seemed ready to draw new measures.

In Friday’s agreement, it is written in black and white that, “over a long period, there is a stability in the share of wages in value added”. But also that it is necessary “boosting the sharing of value”especially because in small companies, essentially…