Paris (France) (AFP) – The increase in the minimum wage which could be announced at the end of the social conference underway Monday morning in Matignon would be between “1.5% and 2%”, according to the president of the CFTC Cyril Chabanier.

Published on: 09/11/2026 - 11:12

This increase, which could take place in advance from December 1, would include the indexation of the minimum wage on prices which otherwise would take place automatically on January 1, but also the first "boost" to improve its purchasing power since July 2012.

On Friday, Labor Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou considered it "important" to try to "cross the bar" of 1,500 euros net for the monthly minimum wage, currently 1,477.93 euros.

“We are still negotiating the amount of the boost, between 1.5% and 2%,” declared the trade unionist before the start of this conference which brings together business and union leaders at the initiative of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who convened it after the day of mobilization on Thursday November 5, which brought together between 575,000 and 1.5 million people.

Cyril Chabanier also mentioned "a change in policy on exemptions granted to companies, where there would perhaps be for the first time, let's say, a small conditionality that could be put in place".

“We will have to have a kind of carrot stick on the exemptions (from contributions) to tell them (the employers): + If you move, you have exos, if you do not move, there are no more,” he explained.

All unions are demanding in particular that professional branches and companies with salary scale levels below the minimum wage, as well as the employer State, come into compliance more quickly each time the minimum wage increases, in order to not cause an increase in the proportion of employees paid the minimum wage.

But the problem is not limited to salary, for Mr. Chabanier: "We are mainly asking for flash negotiations so that within three weeks, we can have real negotiations in the branches."

“I remind you that more than one or two branches have not renegotiated their salary scale for more than 10 years. So that too must change.”

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