Élisabeth Borne receives, this week, unions and employers, face to face, in anticipation of the social conference. The Prime Minister particularly wants employers to take action on low wages.
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The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, threatens to sanction employers who maintain salary scales below the minimum wage, franceinfo learned on Monday October 9 from consistent sources, confirming information from La Tribune Sunday. The sanction under study plans to deprive these employers of part of the rebates on social security contributions. This is an old union demand, notably from the CFDT. Currently, around ten professional sectors have salary scales below the minimum wage.
Gender equality
The head of government also plans to transpose into French law, from the first half of 2024, a European directive on salary transparency. If the member countries of the union have until June 2026 to do so, the CFDT and the CGT are pleading for greater speed. This directive allows employees and employee representatives to ask to see pay slips, to verify, for example, that men are not paid more than women at the same position level and seniority.
Élisabeth Borne will meet the union and employer organizations one after the other, during this week of October 9, ahead of the promised “social conference”, particularly on low wages. It will take place on October 16.