Labor shortage in France: should wages be increased?
Restaurant near the Montmartre hill in Paris (illustrative image).
To compensate for the lack of personnel, some bosses no longer hesitate to increase the remuneration of their employees.
AFP - THOMAS COEX
Text by: RFI Follow
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While the unemployment rate published yesterday, Friday, November 19, remained stable in the third quarter at 8.1% and while inflation is not weakening, should we increase wages?
The idea is starting to gain ground in some companies in France, in a context of labor shortage.
To make up for the lack, some bosses no longer hesitate to increase the remuneration of their employees.
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Before the pandemic, Alain Fontaine's bistro had 300 seats per day, seven days a week. Now, it is satisfied with 200 daily customers, and it closes on Saturday noon and Sunday, "
which really helped me. allowed
, he says,
to increase wages a little, to remove the cuts, to make the continuation for all the employees and to make so that the contract is attractive
.
"
The subject of attractiveness
Attractiveness, an equally recurring subject in the field of cleaning, which has 560,000 employees in France. Philippe Jouanny is the president of the federation of companies in this branch: “
Every year we increase wages, which are higher than the minimum wage, including sometimes according to the companies, with wage offers which are a little above moreover, conventional and despite everything there is a shortage of manpower
. "
Rising wages, a strategy that pays off.
Philippe Granatini founded Serenest in 2016. It is a collective catering company.
He made this choice from the start: “
Today we have very little labor shortage, because we have salary levels that are already higher than the profession;
20% higher than our colleagues.
Salary levels are too low in collective or commercial catering to attract young people.
"
Salary and hardship
And the less young.
Last month, an Elabe poll for
Les Echos
confirmed the boss's impression.
Slightly less than two-thirds of French people cite salary and hardship as the main factors behind the current recruitment difficulties.
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