Valérie Pécresse, candidate Les Républicains, guest of “Presidential Matins” this Monday on franceinfo reaffirmed her proposal to increase net wages by 10% for “all French people who receive up to 2.2 smic”. This would concern all those who are at “3,000 euros net”, that is “the vast majority of French people in the private sector”. “This is a measure aimed at the private sector”, she insisted.
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Valérie Pécresse wishes that “the State takes responsibility for part of the pension contributions which are on salaries” in order to “to be able to increase wages this year by at least 3% excluding inflation” and “up to 10%“, “little by little, as the reforms and economies go along”. Asked about the increase in the cost of labor for companies, candidate LR said she would launch “a great salary conference” from June so that “the companies take a part in the increase of the wages” without forcing them. “They are ready for it”, she assured.
“I want to liberalize working time, so that it can be set freely in the professional sector and in the company, that we can even go as far as the company referendum”, continued Valérie Pécresse, adding to want “denorm”, “remove a whole series of standards” to make companies “more profitable” and make it possible to ensure that part of “these profits can return as a salary”. The LR candidate for the presidential election explains that she wants “also that participation becomes the rule in companies, that means that the rule will be: no dividends for the shareholders if we do not also pay a dividend for the employees.”
Regarding the public sector, Valérie Pécresse wants to proceed “job by job”. “We must revalue the salaries of teachers, it is obvious”, she added, also believing that it is “obvious” than “for caregivers, Ségur did not go far enough”. “We will do, job by job, a reflection on the salary changes required in the public service”, repeated candidate LR. Valérie Pécresse considered, moreover, that it is possible “to go towards very strong increases in income by making it possible to buy back the RTT”, lamenting that “a lot of RTT in the audience is not taken and is lost”.