VSEs in the construction industry "are already at their maximum" and "cannot increase salaries", deplores the president of Capeb after the announcement of the increase in the minimum wage
These companies have only "very little room for maneuver", because the lack of economic activity does not allow them to take on debt, explains Jean-Christophe Repon, Monday on franceinfo.
VSEs in the construction sector "are already at their maximum" and "cannot increase the salaries" of their employees, deplores Monday, November 9 on franceinfo Jean-Christophe Repon, president of the Confederation of crafts and small construction companies (Capeb). The organization is asking for a reduction in salary costs to accompany the increase in the minimum wage on December 1st. Also read Increase in the minimum wage, reductions in charges for businesses...
What to remember from the government's announcements at the end of the social conference For Jean-Christophe Repon, raising the minimum wage to 1,502 euros net is "effectively part of the response to appease social anger". On the other hand, he deplores that this response is not adapted to VSEs and SMEs in the construction sector which have "very little room for maneuver", because the lack of economic activity does not allow them to take on debt. Although the bosses of VSE-SMEs are ready to negotiate, "we will have to find treatment differentiated from that of large groups, which will perhaps have the capacity to support their employees" warns Jean-Christophe Repon.
“If we do not want to compress salaries between the minimum wage and the bottom of the scale”, we absolutely need “advantages or reductions in charges” for the smallest companies, concludes the president of Capeb.
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