On July 23, the MPs adopted the flagship measure of President Hollande’s reform program - and the social partners’ bone of contention - the system reducing social contributions to restore competitiveness and revive employment. Focused on low wages, the measure will come into force on January 1, 2015.
Gift to employers vs. insufficient measure. The chapter on the reduction of social contribution contained in the government’s reform program – known as the responsibility and solidarity pact – has laboriously reached the end of its legislative procedure. After crossing swords with a part of the socialist majority, which criticizes the “ideological U-turn” coming with this decrease in social contribution and the effort to reduce the deficit, the government was also criticized by some unions rega
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