Increase in the minimum wage, freezing of reductions in charges… Annual negotiations on salaries under high tension
DECRYPTION - Faced with measures that would represent more than 11 billion euros, and sluggish growth, companies risk lacking the means to increase salaries.
The atmosphere promises to be electric around the negotiating table. As every year, companies where one or more union sections are formed (generally those which employ more than fifty employees), must initiate talks on remuneration, professional equality, working conditions, known as compulsory annual negotiations (NAO). From October, and until February, the unions will therefore increase the number of meetings with representatives of their management to try to influence salaries.
These are being held this year in a particularly tense social climate. After years of inflation, propelled by the war in Ukraine and then in the Middle East, France is going through a purchasing power crisis. According to INSEE, this fell by 0.7% in 2025.
This is the first time that it has fallen for two consecutive years, since the Institute began to record this data in 1960. The mobilizations follow one another, with, among other demands, the fight against the high cost of living.
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