GRAPHICS – The text, which is voted on by MPs on Tuesday, provides, inter alia, require foreign companies to align the French minimum wage. CGT salutes a “revolution”, the road sector leading the shortcomings of a “partial response” to the distortion of competition.
If the law Macron pass Tuesday, a “revolution” is on. The text, which aims to liberalize the French economy, provides for the imposition of foreign truck drivers working in France to be paid at least minimum wage in French which amounts to 9.61 euros gross per hour. A claim brought by the French companies who report deemed unfair competition from countries of Eastern Europe.
According to the 1996 European Directive governing EU workers temporarily posted to another country, social contributions are due in the country of origin, but the employer must respect the rules of remuneration and work in the host country. But now the foreign trucking exception to this rule. Indeed, the practice of so-called “cabotage” allowing it to load and unload, within a limit of seven days, its trucks on French soil by evading social rules. Which promotes “social dumping” and weakens the use of French workers, according to unions.
Salary side, where a French carrier is paid a little more than 31,000 euros per year for 1572 hours of conduct, his Polish counterpart affects nearly 19,700 euros for 1980 hours and a Slovakian road, 18,252 euros for 1935 hours. The cost for a hexagonal company is twice (46,032 euros per year) than their Polish competitors (19,686 euros) and Slovak (23,494 euros).
La measure size, to the point that the CGT does not hesitate to send a good report to the government. “By now forcing the foreign employee engaged in transport in France to be under the seconded employee of the regime, France imposes the application of French social rules for this employee,” says the union. And to everyone’s surprise, the main federation motorway sector shows his disappointment. To delegate general Nicolas Paulissen, he is a “partial and insufficient response to competition distortion problem. This should be accompanied by a European approach “.
Before the generalization of the minimum wage for foreign road working in France to be effective, the Macron law must be approved by the members who vote in the afternoon. Moreover, a precedent could cool unions and gouverment. On January 1, Berlin passed a similar measure in the context of the creation of the minimum wage, which had caused an outcry from some countries of Eastern Europe. Until the European Commission decides by summer 2015, the German Ministry of Labour had decided in late January to suspend the application of the minimum wage for truck drivers. Anyway, the Macron law, if it passes, should not be applied before December.
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