Europe 1 with AFP 10:26 am, September 15, 2021
The minimum wage will increase automatically on October 1, due to a 2.2% increase in the price index serving as a basis for possible revaluations noted by INSEE.
The exact amount of the revalued minimum wage should be communicated during the day by the Ministry of Labor.
This is an announcement that should reassure the poorest households.
The minimum wage will see an automatic increase on October 1, due to a 2.2% increase in the price index serving as a basis for possible revaluations, according to the figure published this Wednesday by INSEE, which confirms by elsewhere an acceleration of 1.9% in inflation in August over one year.
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Rising inflation
"This rise in inflation results in particular from the rebound in the prices of manufactured products (+ 1.1% after -1.1%)", those of energy, food and services, explains the Institute. national statistics in a press release. "The consumer price index excluding tobacco for households in the first quintile of the distribution of living standards is up by 2.2%" compared to November 2020, the reference month during the last revaluation of the minimum wage in the 1st last January, also adds INSEE.
This development opens the way to an increase in the minimum wage, since according to the Labor Code, an increase of at least 2% must lead to an increase in the minimum wage on October 1.
The exact amount of the minimum wage revalued on October 1 should be communicated during the day by the Ministry of Labor.
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The minimum wage was increased by 0.99% on January 1 to reach 1,554.58 euros gross per month, an increase of 15 euros.
This increase, which corresponded to an automatic revaluation of the minimum wage, brought the gross hourly amount to 10.25 euros.
Last significant increase under Holland
Each year, some unions, such as the CGT which claims a minimum wage of 1,800 euros, ask the government to go beyond the automatic increase, but the last "boost" dates back to July 2012 the day after the election of socialist president François Hollande.
The governments that followed refrained from any one-off increase, arguing that it would hurt the employment of the less skilled.
In detail, the rise in prices for food (+ 1.3%), energy (+ 12.7%) and services (+ 0.7%) continued in August.