French President Nicolas Sarkozy, imposed by law on private enterprises with more than 50 employees to pay a compulsory annual bonus if they increase their dividends, a move that will benefit to eight million workers, is a year when the presidential election.
"In all companies with more than 50 employees subject to the law on the participation, if the dividends paid exceed the previous year, will be required to pay a premium, negotiated with the social partners, is that unions said a government official following a government meeting on Wednesday to define the measure.
This premium, which will benefit eight million workers of the 30,000 French private companies that have over 50 employees, will come into force this year, months before a presidential election polls, at least now, does not favor the incumbent.
"In large companies, if there is a strong increase in dividends, employees will receive a part and will have to force these companies to negotiate," Sarkozy said this week during a visit to a foundry in northern France, one of the areas most affected by unemployment.
The financial crisis also passed through France, where unemployment touches 10%, and purchasing power is stagnant inflation below 2%. International agencies provide an economic growth of between 1.6% and 2% by 2011, insufficient, they say, to boost employment.
At first, the executive spoke of a premium "of at least 1,000 euros." Now say the figure will be negotiated between employers and unions, but states that up to 1,000 euros businesses will be exempt from contributions.
This change reassured the number one of the French employers (MEDEF), Laurence Parisot, who had called the initiative "incomprehensible" and "dangerous."
"is a bad measure," said committee chairman SMEs, Etienne Bernard. An increase in dividends in companies traded "is not the same" as in small and medium-sized "try to grow."
The unions recognize that the premium will be welcome, but call for a wage policy, starting with a minimum wage increase (which is around 1,000 euros), according to Francois Chereque, head of the FDT, the second French union. "This premium split a los trabajadores”, advirtió además ese dirigente.
Mientras Nicolas Sarkozy visitaba la fundición de Vrigne aux Bois, el gobierno decidía prolongar hasta 2012 el congelamiento del índice salarial que sirve para calcular el salario de los 5,2 millones de empleados estatales que no se beneficiarán con la prima obligatoria que el gobierno quiere aplicar este año.
Clarín, 22-4-11
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