Faced with inflation, L’Oréal employees will receive 2,000 euros in bonuses in the coming months as well as a general increase of 3.6% in salaries in 2023 after early salary negotiations. By combining the increase, with its floor of 120 euros, and the bonus, workers “start the year with + 7.9% on average”, says the cosmetics giant in a document sent to employees.
The increase is 4.5% for executives. Senior executives, a large minority among the 14,000 employees in France, will not receive the 2,000 euro bonus for “strengthening purchasing power”, half of which will be paid in November and the other in January.
However, “it lacks a catch-up” by a general increase this year, because the 2.6% obtained during the last annual negotiations at the beginning of the year “are no longer sufficient”, reacted Bouchra Dini, CGT delegate on the site of research at Chevilly-Larue (Val-de-Marne). “Some of the employees are very unhappy. »
According to the company, wages will increase by 8% on average in 2022, bonuses and profit-sharing (9,500 euros minimum and 16,000 euros on average per employee) included.
A hundred employees gathered for “a strong gesture”
A hundred employees and CGT representatives had gathered in the morning in front of the headquarters of L’Oréal at the call of the union to demand “profit sharing” in the face of inflation, which soared with the war in Ukraine and rising energy prices.
The CGT demanded a “strong gesture”, with a “general increase to compensate for inflation” in 2022 and “maintain purchasing power”, explained Manuel Blanco, federal secretary at the National Federation of Chemical Industries (FNIC-CGT ).
The union had also called for a strike on Friday at other sites of the cosmetics giant. A few demonstrators had gathered in particular in Vichy, in the Allier, without the site experiencing a strike or walkout, according to a spokesperson for the group.
“Wages must evolve according to real prices,” claimed Bouchra Dini. “We are like Total, there are billions”, she launched, the day after the publication of a turnover up 19.7% to 9.58 billion euros in the third quarter. .
“If the shareholders can have half of the profits, the employees must be able to have something. The merit of the strikers [de TotalEnergies] is to have put the subject of wages on the table”, she rejoices.