"A Bandage Over an Immense Wound": Jordan Bardella Criticizes Government’s Announced Minimum Wage Increase

“I think that this solution is not only insufficient, but that it is a sticking plaster on a huge wound in this emergency at the end of the month.” The president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, reacted on BFMTV, Tuesday, November 10, to the boost in the minimum wage announced the day before by the government. At the end of a social conference in Matignon, which brought together unions and employers, the Prime Minister announced on Monday that the minimum wage would increase by 0.6%, and that this would be added to its automatic revaluation on prices, which stands at +1%.

The minimum wage will therefore be increased, from December 1, to nearly 1,502 euros per month net, which represents an increase of around 24 euros. Also read The 1.6% increase in the minimum wage is "not up to the level of the explosion in the cost of living", judge Sophie Binet Jordan Bardella proposes "to release a 10% increase in salaries, a 10% net increase which would be exempt from charges for business leaders". A measure which, according to the president of the RN, would have the merit of affecting employees "up to three times the minimum wage", or "15 million employees", compared to "two million" as part of an increase in the minimum wage.

On Thursday, Marine Le Pen said that she refused to force companies to increase wages, as requested in particular by the CGT. According to the candidate, companies could “not cope” and would therefore carry out “a wave of layoffs”.

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