HASBefore the examination of the bill on purchasing power in the Assembly, the unions ruled unanimously on Tuesday July 12 “that the priority subject must be the increase in salaries, pensions and pensions, social minima and scholarships “.
“A succession of one-off measures, mostly financed by the State, cannot constitute a sufficient set to respond to the emergency”, write in a rather rare common text the trade union centers (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFTC, CFE-CGC, FSU, Solidaires and Unsa) and student and secondary school organizations (Unef, Fidl, Mnl, Vl).
“Wages must remain the basis of a rebalanced distribution of wealth in favor of employees. Support for purchasing power measures is also the responsibility of both private and public employers, ”they judge. They affirm that the minimum wage “must remain a starting salary and that it cannot be a low-wage trap keeping employees at the minimum wage throughout their professional careers”.
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Unions target exemptions from employer contributions
To this end, they consider that “the conditionality of business aid is now an imperative”. “The future parliamentary debate must make it possible to move forward in particular on this conditionality of aid to companies which do not play the game in terms of wages”, they believe. Implicitly, the unions target exemptions from employer contributions “Fillon” which apply up to 1.6 times the minimum wage.
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According to the latest government tally, with the successive increases in the minimum wage (October, January, May) due to inflation, 112 of the 171 branches with more than 5,000 employees have at least one wage coefficient below the minimum wage. More generally, while the bill provides for the tripling of the ceiling of the exceptional tax-free and desocialized bonus, known as the Macron bonus, the signatories recall that “these exemptions and reductions in contributions undermine our collective social protection system”.
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Gathered at the headquarters of Force Ouvrière on Monday evening, the organizations had agreed on the main lines of this common text. Other meetings are planned on other themes for the start of the school year, the first at the CFDT on September 5th.