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The parliamentary fact-finding mission on value sharing delivers its conclusions on Wednesday. According to the report, which “Liberation” was able to consult, the Macron bonuses “cannibalize” the other devices.
As inflation sets in – prices again increased by 5.6% over one year in March – corporate profits remain high and wages do not increase at the same rate, to the point that the existence of a price-profit loop is now suspected. Instead of introducing a national tax on superprofits, instead of forcing companies to increase wages, the government has created a tax-free and desocialized bonus and is interested in the mechanisms of «value sharing». He has been agitating on the subject for more than six months. Several ideas have fizzled, such as Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise to establish “an employee dividend” or Renaissance MEP Pascal Canfin’s proposal to force companies that make superprofits to pay a superparticipation.
It was the employers and the unions who were the first to succeed, by signing, apart from the CGT, a National Interprofessional Agreement (ANI), which notably extends to small businesses the obligation to put in place one of the share. An agreement which will be the subject of a “faithful and total transcription in the law”,
