• LVMH
The luxury group LVMH and its various brands announced this Thursday the payment of a bonus of between 1,000 and 1,500 euros to 27,000 employees whose gross annual salary is less than 60,000 euros.
This amount is added to the exceptional bonus of 600 to 1,000 euros already paid in January 2022, specifies LVMH in a press release.
LVMH will pay “more than €400 million” to its employees this year, in addition to other “shared value” devices.
• Stellantis
The automobile group Stellantis, the result of the merger of PSA and Fiat-Chrysler, announced on Tuesday an additional bonus of up to 1,400 euros for 60% of its French employees, including temporary workers, without a salary increase.
All employees will also have the possibility of monetizing up to 3 days of RTT, that is, 400 euros on average for a worker and 600 euros for a manager.
The bonus, however, did not calm the anger at Stellantis, as several factories left the day after the announcement, while the company has excellent financial results.
• SNCF
The SNCF railway group has “increased salaries by almost 6% on average” since the beginning of the year, indicates the management, with an increase of 3.1% on average in fixed salaries in July, with retroactive effect from the 1st of April, a bonus of 400 euros and an increase in vacation pay.
• Bouygues
Bouygues will pay a “value sharing bonus” of between €500 and €1,000 depending on salary. “In addition to the annual salary review,” salaries increased in December 2021, March 2022 and September 2022 for a more than 6% increase in pay over a year in France, all measures combined, the group says.
• Crossing
At the end of last week, Carrefour management proposed a 2.5% salary increase on November 1 in addition to the allocation of a 100-euro bonus, also extending the 12% purchase discount until March 31. that benefits employees.
The majority union Force Ouvrière has announced a consultation of its members.
• The mail
The La Poste group announced in September an additional increase of 1.5% in salaries, in addition to the 2.5% increase in the mandatory annual negotiations (NAO) or the revaluation of the index point for civil servant postal workers.
• Macif
The insurer Macif will pay 1,000 euros in October 2022, then 500 euros in January 2023 and announced a “general salary increase in 2023”, the terms of which remain to be negotiated.
• Air France
Air France in mid-September gave a 5% salary increase to all its employees, along with a bonus of 1,000 euros for a full-time employee.
The increase will be “paid in advance” of NAO 2023 and will be gradually implemented in the coming months, the group said.
• Groupama
Employees of Groupama Assurances Mutuelles and its main subsidiaries received in December 2021 the “Macron bonus” of a maximum of 1,000 euros before an additional bonus of an amount between 400 and 850 euros, depending on salary.
Several regional mutuals have also announced similar bonuses for September 2022.
• Premium for shareholders
TotalEnergies employees benefited in 2022 from a salary increase of 3.5% on average, according to the group, which announced this Wednesday an exceptional dividend of 2,620 million euros in total paid to its shareholders in December 2022.
A strike for purchasing power at the request of the CGT forced the group on Wednesday to close its largest refinery, near Le Havre, in Normandy.
The hydrocarbon giant will increase its investments in renewable energies by one billion euros, according to a press release published this Wednesday.
• Negotiations
Negotiations are ongoing, in particular within the BNP Paribas bank and the Caisse d’Epargne. The proposals of the management of the two groups range from 500 to 1000 euros in bonuses. Negotiations are also currently taking place within the Alstom group.
• Towards average wage increases above 4% in 2023
According to a study by the Alixio Group on organizations with more than 50 employees, the average of these increases will be +4.3%. Specifically, 35% of the companies will grant an increase from 3 to 4%, 21% from +4 to 5%, 23% from +5 to 6% and 13% will exceed 6%.
In short, most companies plan to grant more than a 4% salary increase in 2023, an increase of 60% compared to forecasts for the end of 2021.
if we are interested to executives, the average increase for 2022 will be +2.5% and will increase to +3.4% next year. 70% of the companies surveyed expect individual increases of between +3 and +4%.
At the same time, companies will intensify the use of salary supplements such as increased reimbursements for daily travel expenses (31%) or increased reimbursements for travel expenses (28%).
Macron’s bonus (which is now increased to a maximum of 6,000 euros) should also be widely used by large companies. Thus, 52% of them declare that they could use it (the “could” is important), 21% say that they will not use it.
Source: BFM TV
