Lecornu announces €24 monthly rise in minimum wage and tax breaks for firms
The 1.6% increase lifts the monthly minimum wage to about €1,502, but unions say it falls short of their demands.
- Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced a 1.6% increase in the Smic effective December 1, 2026, raising the net monthly minimum wage to approximately €1,502, an increase of €24 per month.
- Demonstrations in major cities escalated from underfunded school protests into broader civil unrest, including riots on October 17, prompting the government to accelerate the minimum wage hike from January.
- Major unions rejected the offer: CFDT head Marylise Léon called the raise "insufficient," while CGT general secretary Sophie Binet labeled it "crumbs," demanding a 10% increase, or about €150 monthly.
- The CGT called for a new national strike and demonstration day on November 17, following the November 5 strike that drew nearly 600,000 marchers according to Interior Ministry counts.
- Nearly 12.7% of French employees earn at or near the minimum wage, compared with 8% in Germany, making wage adjustments politically sensitive five months before the presidential election.
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The government of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced a 1.6% increase in the minimum wage, equivalent to about €1,500 (approximately R$ 9 thousand). According to the Minister of Labour, Jean-Pierre Farandou, this wage increase is "the second most important of the last 20 years." The French unions, however, classified the measure as insufficient to respond to the protests against the increase in life and called it crumbs. A new st…
Prime Minister Lecornu will revalue it at around €24 next month, far from union demands.
As social protests continue in France, the government is trying to ease tensions by bringing forward a minimum wage increase. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Monday that a planned increase in the minimum wage from January is being moved to December, Reuters reports.
Under pressure after weeks of social mobilization, Sébastien Lecornu advances on December 1 a revalorisation of the minimum wage and announces that decrees will force the branches to negotiate wage increases. The unions remain scepticalAfter the demonstrations, the time of the announcements. In conclusion of a consultation with the employers' and trade union organisations, Sébastien Lecornu, accompanied by some ministers, presented this Monday w…
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