The president of the Hauts-de-France region Xavier Bertrand wishes to see implemented a "zero charge" salary and employer for any company that hires a young CDI. He also called for the outright abandonment of the unemployment insurance reform.

Xavier Bertrand, president (ex-LR) of the Hauts-de-France region, pleaded Sunday on BFMTV so that, faced with the economic and social crisis triggered by the coronavirus, the State set up a "zero charge" device for the first hire of a young person on a permanent contract.

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A "zero" salary and employer burden

"The priority" is young people, he said, asking "that the state, for a certain number of months, take care of the expenses and that we can have zero expenses for a young person who would be recruited in CDI ". He said he was targeting "all charges, whether salary or employer". Xavier Bertrand also denounced the "blackmail" of the "salary moderation" sometimes proposed for safeguarding employment in certain companies.

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"To save our economy, we must work together very large and smallest companies"

"Those who propose this are oblivious (...) When you hear a minister or a business leader" put forward these arguments, we "want to say 'eh coco, you take my place and my pay for six months , then you go back to the TV and we will see if you agree to wage moderation '". "Wage moderation is unthinkable and then it is always for low wages. I will fight against such decisions. Not only is it a moral fault but it is an economic error" because "if people have unless they are going to be able to spend, "he added.

Regarding the executive's "recovery plan", Xavier Bertrand considered that it was rather necessary to speak of "rescue plan" and "reconstruction". "And there, very clearly, it is not the month of September that we have to wait" to implement it. "When the state played firefighters, it did the job pretty well," he said, welcoming in passing "the work" of the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire. But now, it is "no longer a firefighter role to play" but "an architect". "To save our economy, we have to make very large and small businesses work together. We need plans for blue-collar workers too."

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Abandoning unemployment insurance reform

Xavier Bertrand also asked for the outright abandonment of the unemployment insurance reform. "It would be an unnamed error" to maintain it. "This reform cannot see the light of day. You are going to make the French more precarious" whereas today, "we must save the economy and protect people". Same verdict for the pension reform prepared by the government, without "courage" or "justice" and which "does not respond to today's challenges".