Responding to calls from the boss of the Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, and the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, to respect the agreement on the sharing of value in business, reached on February 10 between the social partners, the Prime Minister , Elisabeth Borne, promised Monday to go in this direction.
At a presidential party convention devoted to value sharing yesterday, the prime minister said she wanted “the faithful and total transcription of this agreement into law”reports AFP.
Guest of BFMTV / RMC, the same day, Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy and Finance, had spoken a few hours before, promising to respect this agreement ” history for all SME employees “.
An agreement included in the “full employment” bill
These proposals, submitted until tomorrow for the signature of the trade unions, should be included in a bill on “full employment”, which the government should present in the spring.
The result of eleven rounds of discussion between the unions and the employers, the agreement on the sharing of value provides for the generalization of profit-sharing, incentive schemes or other employee savings plans in small businesses (from 11 employees), generating a profit.
Extension of “value sharing” mechanisms to beneficiary VSEs
A relaxation of access to employee savings, or even the “negotiation obligation” of a specific device in the event of superprofits, are also proposed, but the “employee dividend”, Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise, and desired by Renaissance at the start of these negotiations, was not retained.
Concession of the employers, the value sharing premium has also not been integrated into the mandatory systems for SMEs.
Today, only structures with more than 50 employees are required to put in place a value-sharing mechanism, which concerns participation only; in VSEs, these mechanisms are still rarely adopted despite the relaxations put in place since the Pacte law.
“Value sharing”, another parliamentary tussle?
In a particularly tense social atmosphere with the pension reform, the executive should not risk putting the social partners on an additional file. “This agreement is first and foremost proof that despite the context […]social dialogue continues and is bearing fruit”welcomed Elisabeth Borne.
The political fragmentation of the National Assembly, however, does not exclude a new arm wrestling on a draft legislation in complete resonance with that of the pension reform. The question of the taxation of “super dividends”, in particular, which has rebounded with the financial publications of the energy majors, Total in the lead, will surface there.
In a grandstand at Worldpublished online on Sunday, five Nupes deputies* member of a parliamentary mission in charge of evaluating the “fiscal and social tools for sharing value in the company”, plead for a priority increase in wages: ” Obviously, first of all, wages, everything for wages: the minimum wage, which must be raised, the others which must be indexed to inflation, at least up to 2,000 euros, revalue the grids salaries by branch, link these salaries to a qualification, and above all, do not replace them with bonuses, random bonuses. »
Regarding the value-sharing agreement, MEPs regret that the extension to companies with less than fifty employees provided for in this ” legal mechanism of value sharing”, very vague formulation, to companies with less than fifty employees […] does nothing to solve the “two-speed economy”, where on the one hand, some employees will receive “maybe a dividend, good for them”, and on the other, “the five million second line”, who do not benefit from it, and “cumulate low income, chopped hours, hardship”.
* Philippe Brun, deputy (PS, Eure); Marianne Maximi, deputy (LFI, Puy-de-Dôme); François Ruffin, deputy (LFI, Somme); Eva Sas, deputy (EELV, Paris); Jean-Marc Tellier, deputy (PCF, Pas-de-Calais).