The purchasing power of employees on the lunch menu between Macron and employers

This question was addressed in the context of the installation of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) wanted by Emmanuel Macron to initiate consultations on the reforms of his second five-year term, the president of the Union of local businesses (U2P) Dominique Métayer.

"It's a project that will be put in place quickly with a first meeting on June 22 and the second on June 29", the first in the presence of the President of the Republic and the second with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, he said. -He specifies.

"What the President of the Republic recalled is that companies must value the work done in companies", reported Mr. Métayer.

"It is also up to us to convince those who have not yet taken the plunge", explained the employers' representative who specified that wages could only be increased "in companies which have the capacity and the means".

“We have shared a lot of things around the employee dividend, everyone is asserting their position: on the one hand there are companies which can buy back shares, and on the other hand the vast majority of those which cannot. cannot", indicated for his part the president of the Confederation of SMEs François Asselin.

The President of the Republic has not delivered anything concrete on the bill on purchasing power being prepared by the executive, according to the leader of the CPME, who defends the possibility of paying in installments the exceptional bonus of purchasing power, known as the "Macron bonus", which is tax-exempt and whose ceiling must be tripled.

The CNR "is an object which is beginning to be better identified which will make it possible to address - and this is a good thing - specific themes such as housing or reindustrialisation", declared for his part the president of the Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux , according to comments reported by an official of his organization.