Should an “employee dividend” be introduced? Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise, the Government assures that it does not want to renounce it, despite the reluctance of the employers. The employee dividend “will be implemented,” Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told BFM Business on Friday morning.
This measure carried out by the executive should allow a better distribution of the companies’ profits towards their employees. However, businessmen believe that such a device would hinder competitiveness.
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The employers, headed by Medef, believes that other value sharing mechanisms already exist, such as profit sharing or employers, and that adding a dividend to employees would increase the cost of work. “I perfectly understand the arguments of each one”, but “we cannot ask the French to work longer and not at the same time guarantee a fairer remuneration for their work”, replied the Minister of Economy, from the Davos Forum.
Source: BFM TV
