With the increase in the minimum wage, 164 branches could have lower minimums at the beginning of December, according to the CGT
The union will participate on Thursday in the salary monitoring committee chaired by the Minister of Labor. It will require several measures to counter the decline in salary scales.
The CGT is calling for several measures to counter the decline in salary scales. With the increase in the minimum wage scheduled for December 1, 164 professional branches could find themselves with minimum wages below the minimum wage, the second trade union confederation of employees estimated on Wednesday, November 11. 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 In France, there are some 170 professional branches which each bring together at least 5,000 employees. Their collective agreements generally provide for a conventional minimum wage. But these minimums are sometimes lower than the minimum wage.
“Despite the numerous government promises since 2023, no sanctions have been put in place,” deplores the CGT. The union points to "a generalized reduction in the scales with employees stuck to the minimum wage for 10 or 15 years, intermediate professions and even sometimes executives caught up by the minimum wage". The government has requested the opening of branch negotiations. The confederation will participate on Thursday in the salary monitoring committee chaired by the Minister of Labor.
She will demand, among other things, “the immediate opening of negotiations in all branches and an increase in all salaries by at least 5.3% to pass on the increase in the minimum wage in 2026 to all scales”. She also calls for “immediate sanctions for all branches which do not respect the law, while the decree that the government has just published gives them a period of one year and a long series of possibilities to escape sanctions”. The government has requested, according to the Minister of Labor Jean-Pierre Farandou, that the branches open negotiations "from next week" to raise their minimums taking into account the new minimum wage.
The Ministry of Labor, whose method differs, counted 69 branches with minimums below the minimum wage and estimated that the increase in the minimum wage would push an additional 64 into non-compliance.
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