“The alert rating on public accounts has not been reached, it is already largely exceeded,” warns Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.
The Medef boss’s turn to give his opinion on the bill on purchasing power, the first test of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term, which the government must present to the Council of Ministers on July 6. While the text should be the subject of a tough battle with the opposition, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux shows concern. “We are very concerned to see this law become a catch-all text, which would take up proposals for checks from each other to find a majority, with on arrival a crippling bill for public finances“, he said in an interview with echoes released on Tuesday.
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Public finances already in the red, alarmed the president of Medef. “The alert level on the public accounts has not been reached, it is already largely exceeded. […] We can’t afford everything in the name of defending purchasing power! Targeted, proportionate and time-limited measures are needed.On Monday, Bruno Le Maire used the same argument to call for opposition to restraint on the purchasing power bill. “Not everything is possible, simply because we have reached the watertight level on public finances“, said the Minister of the Economy on RMC / BFMTV.
“Developing interest”
Among the measures of the bill should include in particular the strengthening of the “transport premiums» paid by companies to their employees, to cover part of the cost of their home-to-work travel. The boss of Medef indicated that the companies were going to “seize this new lever, […] and this will allow them to better respond, in a targeted manner, to the problems of employees who drive a lot“. On the “prime Macron“, if he does not say he is opposed “the removal of the ceiling which would allow the maximum amount to be increased to 6000 euros“, the boss of Medef warns:”The margin rate of companies will undoubtedly fall this year with the rise in prices, which will necessarily weigh on the level of premiums.»
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On the other hand, the founding president of Notus-Technologies rejects the Nupes proposal to raise the minimum wage to 1500 euros net. “The destructive effect on employment will be immediate“, he warns. And the boss of bosses to shell his own proposals for purchasing power. “We want to develop profit-sharing by proposing that a share be individualized or that it be distributed on a smaller scale than the establishment, a specific department of the company for example“, he explains. It also offers “remove the overtime premium».