INFO LE FIGARO – Due to inflation, companies have revised their compensation forecasts upwards this year.
A highlight of social dialogue in companies, the mandatory annual negotiation (NAO) – regulatory in those of more than 50 employees, and part of the discussions on remuneration – no longer focuses this year on a single period, as traditionally.
The continuous rise in inflation, in the context of the crisis in Ukraine, led more than half of the companies to carry out three negotiations during the first half of the year, even though they had not provided for a review clause, according to a study carried out by the Alixio firm with a hundred large companies. Only 16% of the structures surveyed remained confined to a single negotiation.
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“Initially, companies negotiated on the basis of the 2021 context. But with inflation climbing to 7%, they had to take this unexpected macroeconomic phenomenon into account, and let go of ballast”, notes Philippe Vivien, vice-president of the Alixio group. While the increase budget was planned at 2.5%…