Towards a compulsory “employee dividend” and a “super-participation” for super-profits?

Renaissance, the party of Emmanuel Macron, advocates a system of “employee dividend” compulsory for all companies, as well as a “super-participation” for the benefit of the employees of those realizing “super dividends”, indicated Tuesday the one of its leaders, MEP Pascal Canfin.

These two proposals, validated by the executive office of the party, must be debated during the consultations carried out with the social partners by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt.

They will also be studied by a working group of the Renaissance group in the Assembly and “refined” during a party convention scheduled for January and led by Mr. Dussopt and Bruno Le Maire.

The objective is to be able, at the beginning of February, “to make concrete proposals which then obviously have a vocation to be taken up by the government”, indicated Mr. Canfin.

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Renaissance first wishes to “establish the principle of the employee dividend”, Emmanuel Macron’s campaign commitment. It is a question of “introducing a reform which consists of extending a system of sharing the value to all employees in France”, explained Mr. Canfin.

“The concrete, practical modalities – should a threshold be set? An employee ? Ten employees? The same formula of participation or another? – (…) must now be paid to the consultation”, specified Mr. Canfin, for whom “an equivalent result” can be obtained via other mechanisms (profit-sharing agreements , exceptional purchasing power bonus).

Second proposal, the payment of a “super-participation” by companies with at least 50 employees, if the dividends paid are greater than 20% of the average of the last five years.

The presidential party, explained Mr. Canfin, wanted to avoid “two pitfalls”. First “a generalized indexation of wages”, with “companies which are beginning to be partly weakened because of the increase in the price of energy”.

The idea of ​​a salary conference, mentioned by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin during a previous executive office, was not retained.

Second “pitfall”: “doing nothing” and relying “on the goodwill of companies”, explained Mr. Canfin, while the question of sharing value and “super-dividends” or “super-profits has been at the center of political debate since the spring elections.

The majority was divided in particular on an amendment on the taxation of “super-dividends” by the president of the MoDem Jean-Paul Mattei, adopted in the Assembly against the advice of the government and not taken up by the latter in the budget text submitted. in section 49.3.

The Renaissance proposals “do not call into question the supply policy”, insisted Mr. Canfin.

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