Uinstructions from the government of September 16, 2022 relating, in particular, to the organization of the distribution and load shedding of natural gas and electricity consumption with a view to the passage of winter 2022-2023 prophesies it to the carefree who have still benefited in recent weeks from a exceptionally mild climate.
Winter is coming, and yet, instead of massively reducing our energy consumption and multiplying the alternatives to carbon transport, the Prime Minister, aware of the social climate, announced on Sunday October 16 that the government was extending the 30 euro cents per liter on fossil fuels until mid-November to support the purchasing power of the French.
Conversely, the energy sobriety plan, presented on October 6, invites companies to subscribe to fifteen shares on the platform Companies are committed… but none of them directly aims to improve the remuneration of employees in this period of inflation.
Admittedly, at a time when the demands to fight against the end of the world join those for the end of the month, at a time when our fellow citizens are marching “against the high cost of living and climate inaction”, it may seem difficult to fix to companies a target of reducing energy consumption by 10% and, at the same time, to call on them, as the Minister for the Economy did again recently, to increase wages if they can.
Prevention, recycling, recovery, disposal
However, a solution appears immediately mobilizable to both commit companies to carry out an environmental transformation and financially reward the employees who will participate in it: profit-sharing agreements based on environmental criteria.
In a nutshell, the purpose of the profit-sharing agreement is to associate employees collectively with the results or performance of the company. Set up by collective agreement, or subject to threshold conditions by unilateral agreement from the employer, their calculation formulas can incorporate environmental indicators. As the Ministry of Labor points out in one of its employee savings guides, ” social partners [ont] great latitude in establishing the calculation formula”. Thus, they are free to calculate the performance of the company through environmental criteria.
In addition, since a decree of August 20, 2019 implementing the provisions of the Pacte law (Action plan for the growth and transformation of companies), the performance criteria relating to corporate social responsibility (CSR) can also be included in a profit-sharing agreement, whether it concerns the means devoted to the prevention of environmental risks and pollution, measures for prevention, recycling, reuse, recovery and elimination of waste or actions fight against food waste.
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