Economy

The orange cones will continue to cause headaches for road users as major disruptions loom on eastbound Highway 40, which will be completely closed over the summer.

The Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable indicates that the eastbound section of the A-40 will be closed between the Morgan Boulevard sector in Baie-D’Urfé and the entrance from Saint-Charles Boulevard in Kirkland.

The closure will be effective from Saturday at 8 a.m. and traffic in the western portion will be diverted in the opposite direction to go in the opposite direction, the MTQ said in a press release.

In order to reduce the impact of this closure, the MTQ is planning dynamic traffic management with the maintenance of 3 lanes open during rush hours and 2 lanes in the opposite direction, until December.

“Since the work might cause noise, the Ministry has planned the installation of a temporary noise barrier between the sector of rue Gérard-Guindon and chemin Sainte-Marie,” added the MTQ.

At the general meeting of the Committee on the 24th, the Personal Information Protection Commission judged a total of 11 businesses, including business operators whose personal information was leaked due to neglect of safety measures, and business operators who restricted service subscription of information subjects who did not agree to the processing of personal information for public relations purposes. It was decided to impose a fine of 51.62 million won and a fine of 51 million won.

These operators are T Map Mobility Co., Ltd., Philip Morris Korea Co., Ltd., Green Car Co., Ltd., Chang Maru Co., Ltd., Pet Box Co., Ltd., Sicment Co., Ltd., Lara Job Co., Ltd., Marketing Ease Co., Ltd., Qoo10 Pte. Ltd., JT Communications Co., Ltd., Integration Co., Ltd., etc.

The Personal Information Commission initiated a fact-finding investigation in response to personal information leakage reports and personal information infringement reports. As a result of the investigation, it was found that 10 business operators violated safety measures and 1 business operator violated the method of obtaining consent.

Of the 10 operators that violated the safety measures, personal information was leaked from three operators, T Map Mobility Co., Ltd., Philip Morris Korea Co., Ltd., and Green Car Co., Ltd., due to internal factors such as system setting errors. It was confirmed that the duty of safety measures, such as access control, was neglected, and a fine was imposed.

In particular, a penalty of 51.62 million won was imposed on T-Map Mobility Co., Ltd., which leaked the personal information of 4,000 people due to a source code setting error.

In addition, personal information was leaked from 5 operators, Chang Maru Co., Ltd., Pet Box Co., Ltd., Chicment Co., Ltd., Lara Job Co., Ltd., and Marketing Ease Co., Ltd., and the Personal Information Commissioner confirmed that all of them neglected their safety measures and imposed sanctions such as corrective orders and fines for negligence.

And Qoo10 Pte. Ltd. and JT Communication Co., Ltd., a corrective order and the imposition of fines were resolved. On the other hand, a fine was imposed on Integration Co., Ltd., which operated a website so that information subjects who did not agree to the processing of personal information for public relations purposes might not sign up for the service.

Kim Hae-sook, Investigation Division 2 of the Personal Information Commission, said, “Recently, incidents in which personal information is leaked due to internal carelessness as well as illegal access from the outside such as hacking have occurred frequently.” We must take active measures to protect personal information, such as regular vulnerability checks and regular training for personal information handlers.”

The government presents this Wednesday in the Council of Ministers its draft law on the sharing of value, “faithful” transposition of an agreement concluded between unions and employers to generalize the sharing of company profits to employees. The executive sees this agreement as proof that social dialogue is still possible, despite the tensions generated by the pension reform.

Concluded in February in a context of high inflation, the national inter-professional agreement (ANI) aims in particular to widely generalize mechanisms such as profit-sharing, participation or value-sharing bonuses (PPV) to all companies over of 11 employees, as well as to develop employee share ownership.

The text of the bill is a “faithful and integral transposition” of the agreement between social partners, said the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, Tuesday during a press conference. “Any modification, any contribution to the ANI, the government will only defend them with a consensus of the signatories of the ANI”, he added.

The government is aiming for adoption before the end of the parliamentary session this summer.

Lagging small businesses

Participation is a mechanism for redistributing profits, currently compulsory in companies with more than 50 employees, while profit-sharing is an optional bonus linked to results or non-financial performance, schemes which come with tax advantages.

But smaller companies are still lagging behind: 88.5% of employees in companies with more than 1,000 people benefited from a value-sharing scheme in 2020, compared to less than 20% in those with less than 50 employees. , according to the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Labor (Dares).

To generalize these mechanisms, the agreement provides that companies between 11 and 49 employees that are profitable — that is, their net profit represents at least 1% of turnover for three consecutive years — ” put in place at least one “value-sharing system” from January 1, 2025. Companies with fewer than 11 employees “have the possibility” of sharing the profits with their employees, according to the ANI, signed by four unions on five, with the exception of the CGT.

The government has chosen 2025 as the date of entry into force, contrary to the recommendation of a parliamentary report which at the beginning of April recommended an implementation “from 2024” given inflationary tensions.

“Risk of overbidding”

In February, the president of the Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, like the general secretary of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, had called on the executive to respect the text of the ANI during its transposition into a bill. The boss of bosses had estimated that “any unraveling” would constitute “a stab in the back of the social partners”, and the union official considered that a modification would be “a tripping up social democracy”.

The bill is limited to the measures of the agreement between unions and employers and does not include additional measures on “superprofits”, mentioned by Emmanuel Macron at the end of March. Pointing to large companies devoting their “exceptional” income to share buybacks, the president had asked the government to think regarding ways to make workers “benefit” from this windfall.

The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, had mentioned, regarding companies with more than 5,000 employees, a possible “doubling” of the sums paid under the value-sharing schemes. In the National Assembly, “there is a risk of overbidding with subjects on superprofits and superdividends”, estimated Olivier Dussopt. With this bill, the executive also wants to turn the painful page of pensions.

After a rough resumption of contact with the unions, which are still demanding the repeal of the reform, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne received the main employers’ organizations at the start of the week, the latter saying they were ready to discuss the employment of seniors.

(with AFP)