Faced with accelerating inflation, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, called on Monday, May 23, companies that can to increase wages, at the start of a meeting in Bercy with employers’ organizations. , unfavorable to any generalized increase. “I think it’s good that wages can increase in companies that have the opportunity,” said the minister, adding that “we need our compatriots to say to themselves, ‘it pays me to work’, and not ‘ it’s costing me dear’ because of the price of gasoline.”The return of inflation is a source of concern and anxiety, of anguish for millions of compatriots”, explained Bruno Le Maire, while the Consumer price inflation reached 4.8% over one year in April. Addressing the bosses, he wished “that all together we can provide answers to this”, while rejecting “general increases, everywhere, decided by the administration” because “that’s not how it works and that’s not what would be effective”.
Same story for the President of the Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME), François Asselin, who declared, this Monday morning, on franceinfo that there would be “no uniform salary increase (…). You you will have as many situations as there are different companies”. “We have companies that are weakened, so we have to be careful, not to handicap the future, which is uncertain”, also warned AFP Dominique Métayer, president of the Union of local businesses (U2P) .