At a little over two months of the presidential election, the party candidate the Republicans decided to review the modalities of one of his main proposals for purchasing power.
This is one of the strong measures of its program to improve the purchasing power of the most modest. The Republican Party candidate has been proposing for several months to increase the net private salaries of up to 2.2 SMIC. But the president of the Ile-de-France region has decided to amend the terms of this proposal, his spokesman Geoffroy Didier, during a press conference Thursday, January 27.
Initially, the Candidate LR planned to transfer to companies the old-age contributions of employees, the State taking charge of two thirds of the cost of this measure (25 billion euros). But, According to the echos ,” however, remained at the expense of companies about eight billion euros “, causing their dissatisfaction and binding M Me Pécresse to review his copy.
In this new version, “the state will take its responsibilities” by financing a 2.4 points decrease in the old-age fees for employees, which should lead to a rise in net salaries of 3%, Mr Didier said. The measure will conceer everyone and no longer that modest employees as originally planned by the candidate. For the easiest employees, the increase will be less strong than 3%, because these contributions are capped, specifies the economic daily.
“Purchasing power shock”
This measure, state side, will be done “by asking businesses a salary revaluation effort,” said one of the candidate spokesperson, Othman Nasrou, “with regard to all the possibilities proposed in particular on the relaxation of working time “. “The goal remains the same, there may be adjustments to the terms”, but “we always fully assume our target of 10% increase in net inflation salaries by the next five years” , said, Thursday, Mr. Didier.
Valérie Pécresse, who promises a “purchasing power shock”, assured January 18th on BFM-TV that “today, priority, it is wages”, by wishing to tax the hours Additional. Stopped by a caregiver for difficult months, the right candidate had also devised the possibility for the employee to exchange RTTs against ringing and stumbling species. “There is a lot of RTT that are not taken and many French people who would prefer to convert their free time into pay today to be able to earn more,” she then explained, proposing to tax and exempt from charges The sums thus perceived.