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Zapados@sh.itjust.works to World News@quokk.au · 2 days ago

French PM brings forward 1.6% increase in minimum wage in bid to calm protests

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French PM brings forward 1.6% increase in minimum wage in bid to calm protests

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Zapados@sh.itjust.works to World News@quokk.au · 2 days ago
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'Crumbs': French PM's 1.6% minimum wage increase fails to placate unions
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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Monday that a planned 1.6% increase in the minimum wage would be brought forward from January to December after holding talks with trade unions and…
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  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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    I’m not French but 1.6% sounds insulting no matter how it scales

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      It’s worse then that. In France, the minimum wage gets automatically adjusted for inflation every January, that’s where the 1.6% comes from.

      His suggestion would be simply making this adjustment happen in December rather than January.

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        Surely you mean it would happen in December and again in january

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          France’s national minimum wage would normally be raised on January 1 to reflect inflation, but instead the government will raise it by 1.6% in December, Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou told a press conference.

          (Emphasis mine)

          So it’s effectively a one-month only bonus of… 24 €.

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    a planned 1.6% increase in the minimum wage would be brought forward from January to December

    Making a planned increase happen a month earlier is so much worse than the headline implies.

    The increase fell well short of the demands of unions, which have called for fresh protests in the coming days

    Well duh.

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    Is this a joke?

  • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    So, he’s chosen “let them eat cake”?

    …Bold move, sir. Do you perhaps read? 🫥

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      not even enough to afford a cake, make 1/2 a baguette.

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        What is that, ~$5/wk? Thafuq.

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    Do you want Le Pen? This is how you get her, what an imbecile move.

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      The center right is basically okay with fascism, if the alternative is leftist policies.

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    Wow.

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    LOL

  • Balldowern@lemmy.world
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    Why aren’t thet subsidizing solar panels & reducing electricity bills by 40% ? Distribute MREs to the citizens. Work with pharmaceutical companies to drop pill prices by 20%.

    Make some actual changes.

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    …per year? Or is he dumb?

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