What if tomorrow, you all get a “smoking bonus”? It is the project of insubordinate France (LFI) which deposited, within the framework of the examination of the bill for the purchasing power, an amendment in this direction. “Through this amendment, we propose to rename the” value sharing bonus “in” smoking bonus “, write the 75 deputies of rebellious France in this amendment.
The article concerned by this amendment is the first of the bill. This provides for the establishment of a “value sharing bonus”, which the common man knows better under the name “Prime Macron”. This provides for the establishment of a bonus, which can go up to 6,000 euros, paid by the company to employees, without them being taxable.
An amendment “in a constructive concern”
“Value sharing premium”? “The term remains as problematic as ever”, deplore the LFI deputies. “No bonus shares the value, they continue, in the presentation of their amendment. The principle of a bonus is to distribute a fraction of excess value. “By paying only net remuneration and closing all social rights – unemployment or old age coverage in particular – the premiums shape an artificial deficit in the Social Security accounts”, also continue the deputies.
So with a touch of irony – not new, but rare in such legislative projects – the deputies of rebellious France then proposed, “in a constructive concern”, to “rename the bonus in question to make it more readable to eyes of the general public”. Their suggestion, then? “The term of smoking premium seems to us endowed with the required qualities: explicit as to its object, short in its expression, accessible in its vocabulary. It remains to be seen whether the idea will survive the legislative process…