2023-06-27 05:01:38
Barthélémy Philippe with AFP / Photo credit: Amaury Cornu / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 7:01 am, June 27, 2023, modified at 7:04 am, June 27, 2023
The deputies began on Monday the examination of the bill on the “Sharing of value” within companies, resulting from a union-employer agreement, confronting their visions of the relationship between bonuses and wages, and measures of redistribution of profits. The text must make it possible to act “for the purchasing power to cope with inflation”, affirmed the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, welcoming “a proposal for increased solidarity between capital and work”.
He defended a “faithful” transposition of the national interprofessional agreement (ANI) concluded in February. Signed by four out of five unions – without the CGT -, it plans to extend devices such as profit-sharing, participation or value-sharing bonuses (“Prime Macron”) to all companies with more than 11 employees. . It is also a question of developing employee share ownership. This could concern “1.5 million employees” within “two to three years”, argued Olivier Dussopt earlier on CNews.
Concerned LFI deputies
But the left opposition criticizes the government for not faithfully and fully transcribing the union agreement, as it had promised. Because this agreement recalls that the bonuses must in no case replace permanent salary increases. This is called the principle of non-substitution. However, the bill does not mention it, deplores the rebellious deputy Aurélie Trouvou.
“By refusing any mechanism which allows bonuses not to replace real wage increases, we are witnessing a betrayal of this agreement”, judges the elected official at the microphone of Europe 1. “INSEE has shown that 30% of these bonuses in fact replace real lasting wage increases”, alarms the deputy LFI.
Attempt to amend
The accusation stung the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt: “Madame Touré challenged me by saying to me: ‘But where is the principle of non-substitution of the value-sharing bonus?’ Well, it’s article 1 of the law of August 16, 2022, so it’s in the law. And it’s not you who voted for it since you voted against the purchasing power measures “, annoys the minister.
At the end of the evening, the Nupes tried in vain to amend the bill, in particular to oblige companies to begin the mandatory annual negotiations on wages, before discussing bonuses at least a month later to prevent them from do not serve as an argument for a pay freeze. But the majority stuck together. Continuation of the debates this Tuesday evening from 9:30 p.m.
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