If private sector employees will be able to benefit from tax-free premiums, the mobilized public officials could also be rewarded, but in another form, announced Muriel Pénicaud, the Minister of Labor, on Thursday, referring to "active reflection".
"We actually believe that we must support all those who have an essential role today," said Muriel Pénicaud, interviewed on Franceinfo on the possible granting of bonuses to public employees who continue to work despite the coronavirus epidemic. .
A premium of 1,000 euros in the private sector
"We are thinking about it in government, how we will also welcome efforts in the public sector. It is a very active reflection these days, "continued the Minister, adding that this measure would be announced" when the time comes "by the Prime Minister. In any event, the device will not "really take the same form" as the boost planned for private sector employees, however warned Muriel Pénicaud.
For the latter, the government has decided that the tax-free bonus of a maximum of 1,000 euros would no longer be subject to the establishment by the company of a profit-sharing agreement. The companies that pay this bonus - raised to 2,000 in the event of a profit-sharing agreement - may also adjust it according to the working conditions linked to the epidemic. Asked about these devices, the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger estimated Thursday that the granting of bonuses should not be reserved for the private sector. "The state cannot ask private companies" to pay bonuses "and not do it itself," he insisted on Franceinfo.
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