Michel Barnier abandons Gabriel Attal's idea of ​​“desmicardizing” France

After pensions and electricity, the government is backpedaling. He plans to go back on the reduction in charges. In its initial version, the text planned to increase the cost of labor at the lowest wage level. But faced with the outcry from employers and especially from EPR deputies, the government could partially give up. By doing this, he would draw a line under certain economies and the project to “de-microcardize” France.

Indeed, exemptions from charges could well be maintained on remuneration at the minimum wage level. A decline which annoys Cyril Chabanier, the president of the French Confederation of Christian Workers.

“If the Prime Minister changes his mind, we will not resolve the problem of these low-wage traps and we will not succeed in 'de-emphasisizing'. Today, we are no longer in the same context as there a few years ago, when it was absolutely necessary to reduce the unemployment rate, and therefore there was an incentive for companies to hire people at the minimum wage. Today, the question is no longer about hiring people at the minimum wage. it is to make it progress, to make them evolve,” he tells Europe 1.

Promote salary dynamics

In reality, for some experts, the government's initial proposal was mainly aimed at replenishing the state's coffers, rather than “de-emcardizing” France. Discussions between parliamentarians could therefore be an opportunity to really think about it, believes Antoine Bozio, director of the Public Policy Institute. “The debate that there is today is how to ensure that we encourage salary dynamics more. That is to say, encourage salary increases when we progress in our salary career,” explains -he.

For the moment, nothing has been done. The government hopes to find a compromise in the coming days.