Examination of the text continues, despite heated exchanges.

The National Assembly voted Tuesday evening the facilitation of profit-sharing schemes in companies, a measure castigated by the left-wing coalition Nupes, during the still slow examination of the purchasing power bill.

The debates dragged on on this third article, which mainly aims to promote profit-sharing (bonuses linked to company results) in small companies with fewer than 50 employees.

It was passed at first reading, by 288 votes to 90, before the bill was examined in the Senate.

A simplification for the Minister of Labor

Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt praised a “simplification” and “facilitation” mechanism for “value sharing” within the company.

Profit-sharing is “still very little implemented” in companies with fewer than 50 employees, underlined LREM MP Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet.

To develop it, the article allows for a system of profit-sharing on the "unilateral decision" of the heads of these small companies in the absence of institutions representing the staff or in the event of failure of negotiations, when the company is not not covered by an approved branch agreement providing for a profit-sharing scheme.

The text also proposes more generally to extend the duration of profit-sharing agreements from three to five years.

heated exchanges

LFI, environmentalist and communist deputies rejected the article en bloc, demanding salary increases rather than bonuses.

"It's a complete decoy", a "subterfuge offered to the bosses to once again avoid any real salary increase", pointed out the LFI Aurélie Trouvé.

The communist Pierre Dharréville saw in it a “liberal logic” of deregulation.

“The salary will remain the same.

How by earning more, an employee will be precarious?

“, replied the MoDem Erwan Balanant.

At Horizons, also in the presidential majority, Vincent Thiébaut criticized the left-wing coalition Nupes for its “total ignorance of the business world”.

"We know the business world, but unlike you, we talk more with employees than with bosses," retorted the rebel Antoine Léaument.

On the right, LR Thibault Bazin judged for his part that the measure is going "in the right direction", despite persistent "brakes" for small businesses.

There were still 389 amendments to be considered on this bill at the close of the session on Tuesday at midnight, with a schedule that may be further disrupted.

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