2023-07-29 17:41:44
The start of the school year will be “socially quite peaceful”, believes the new president of Medef Patrick Martinwho finds “very worrying” the “disconnection” between the overheating of the political debate and the reality on the ground.
“I think the start of the school year will be politically hot, and socially quite peaceful,” said Martin in an interview with the regional newspapers of the Ebra group, published on Saturday. “We are in a political configuration such that everything becomes eruptive, and theNational Assembly heats up around topics that are of little interest to the general public. (…) This disconnect between political debate and social reality is very worrying,” he says.
Pension reform “essential”, says Martin
judging that the French know that the pension reform was “essential”, although “painful”, Patrick Martin remarks “that there was no mobilization in private companies”. “There was a peak of 1.4 million demonstrators, which is considerable, but there are 28 million active people in France,” he notes.
Refusing to reveal his own salary – which represents “nine times the median salary of (his) company” – Patrick Martin calls for “putting things in perspective” when talking about the remuneration of business leaders. The very high salaries concern, according to him, “only a tiny minority of business leaders”.
“The market for top managers is a global micro-market. Wanting to cap these remunerations is to expose oneself to the risk that they will go elsewhere. You have to know how to attract talent”, pleads the boss of bosses who also considers that the remuneration of elected politicians “does not match their workload, their media exposure and the reputational and legal risks they incur”.
Newly elected
Martin, who took the helm of the Medef on July 17, gave up operational management of his Martin Belaysoud group, of which he is the majority shareholder, to become chairman of the supervisory board. “I want to be at the head of my company to celebrate its bicentenary in 2029”, assures the newspapers of the Ebra group the leader, now 63 years old.
Martin Belaysoud is a group of approximately 3,000 employees, specializing in professional distribution for the construction and industry sectors, which exceeds one billion euros in annual turnover.
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