PS deputy Gérard Leseul’s bill, which provided for a 15% increase in the minimum wage, echoes the proposals of PS candidate Anne Hidalgo.
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It wasn’t a surprise. The National Assembly rejected, Thursday, December 20, a bill presented by the Socialists to increase the minimum wage and organize a national conference on wages, against the backdrop of the presidential campaign.
PS deputy Gérard Leseul’s bill, which provided for a 15% increase in the minimum wage, echoes the proposals of PS candidate Anne Hidalgo. Debated within the framework of a day reserved for the PS group, it came up against the opposition of the government and the majority, which chose to reject it by means of amendments. The text was on the contrary supported by the other leftist groups, LFI and communists.
“After the crisis, nothing can justify the capture of ever greater wealth in fewer and fewer hands”pleaded in vain, the deputy Boris Vallaud, denouncing “a lost five-year term in terms of the fight against wage inequality”.
“We share the diagnosis of allowing all our fellow citizens to live with dignity from their work but (…) we do not share the means“, underlined the minister delegate in charge of integration, Brigitte Klinkert. She highlighted the “risks hampering the vigorous recovery of our economy” by increasing the “labor cost [qui] would damage our competitiveness”.
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