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Zapados ( Zapados@sh.itjust.works )  to World News@quokk.au · 7 hours 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 ( Zapados@sh.itjust.works )  to World News@quokk.au · 7 hours 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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  • Sina ( Sina@beehaw.org ) 
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    Do you want Le Pen? This is how you get her, what an imbecile move.

  • Hegar ( Hegar@fedia.io ) 
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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.

  • Sanctus ( Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ) 
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    I’m not French but 1.6% sounds insulting no matter how it scales

    • RichardDegenne ( RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ) 
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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.

  • rumimevlevi ( rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works ) 
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    Is this a joke?

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

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

    • Tollana1234567 ( Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ) 
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      not even enough to afford a cake, make 1/2 a baguette.

  • resipsaloquitur ( resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe ) 
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    Wow.

  • Sharkticon ( Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ) 
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    …per year? Or is he dumb?

  • andyburke ( andyburke@kbin.earth ) 
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    LOL

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