Branches with minimums below the minimum wage have until June 2024 to comply. Currently, 56 branches are concerned, including “eight to ten” “in a lasting manner”, the Minister of Labor specified on Tuesday.
A period of eight months is given to branches below the minimum wage to comply, “to give time for social dialogue to do its work”assured the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, Tuesday October 17 on franceinfo.
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A clarification which comes the day after the social conference on salaries organized by the government during which Élisabeth Borne threatened branches with minimum wages below the minimum wage to revise downwards their exemptions if there is no progress by June 2024.
The minister sees it as a form of“incentive”. “The principle that we have retained with the Prime Minister is to support, to boost social dialogue. I will first receive them, remind them of the rules of the game”, he clarified. Currently, 56 branches are not in compliance, including “eight to ten” “sustainably”that’s to say “for 18 months”specified the minister.
“When a branch is permanently in this situation of non-compliance, if things don’t change, we can force the branch to merge with another”
Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Laborat franceinfo
If companies do not have “no right to pay their employees below the minimum wage”when several levels of seniority are caught up by the minimum wage, this generates a “compaction” salaries. “You are stuck on the minimum wage“, underlined Olivier Dussopt. Marylise Léon, general secretary of the CFDT, called in September on the government to remove exemptions from social contributions to companies which “don’t play the game” of the salary increase, particularly if the company keeps an employee on the minimum wage for more than two years.
But in the eyes of the minister, doing it on a case-by-case basis is “technically complicated”. “It’s painstaking work, and therefore titanic work, and it’s extremely complicated”judged Olivier Dussopt. “In a certain number of branches which are not in compliance with the law because their collective agreements have not been reviewed, this does not mean that the companies do not behave better than the branches”he estimated. “We will apply the bill to reduce exemptions only for companies which are stuck to the collective agreement and which make no effort”he added.