Raising the minimum wage in advance by 22 euros per month, an effective measure to calm the ambient anger?

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. In the processions, the banners demand it one after the other: increased salaries, increases in purchasing power.

So, what answers? The government plans to act on the minimum wage, today at 1,478 euros net per month. The Minister of SMEs confirms a dialogue with the social partners.

“Purchasing power goes through salaries. There are discussions currently underway with my colleague, Minister of Labor, and with trade union organizations, employers' organizations as well,” indicated Serge Papin, Minister of SMEs, Trade and Purchasing Power. Initially, the minimum wage was to be increased and indexed to inflation next January: around 1%.

But this revaluation could take place as early as December, with an additional boost of 0.5%, or around 22 euros net per month of increase. In an SME specializing in illuminated signs, this increase would be welcome. “It helps a little bit with inflation to pay us a little bit of gas, a little bit of groceries.

It's still a catch, I think", estimates Gaëlleanne Noël, employee. A boost well below the unions' demands. The boss has done the calculation, for all his employees, it would cost him 3,000 euros per year. "We have a freeze on reductions in social charges and you have the increase in the minimum wage.

So, mechanically, the same employee - it's a double penalty - will cost us more", points out Alexandre David, founder of "Monsieur Sticker". In the government, some see it as a possible way out of the crisis. "We need a rapid response, in the very short term", says a minister, while other demonstrations are planned next Saturday and November 5.

But would this boost be enough? It remains a long way from the demands of the unions: they are demanding a minimum increase in the minimum wage of 100 euros per month.

Machine-translated from French