recovery will be long and painful but it will bear its fruitBut this rally has been of short durationIt put the system at the service of employmentIt is far time curved neck and steal wordsA dream that in General is only a chimeraThe pole is now 75 members against 55 in 2007Producers are still poor when prices fallIf the principles are clear the reality is perhaps lessBeijing could consider worst case scenarioThe time is the controlled sophisticationThe debate on the share of the value in the company, launched on 5 February by Nicolas Sarkozy, is taking shape. Inviting the folder, the UMP today organizes a "workshop" on the theme of the sharing of added value. For the Gaullist inheritance on the participation and with objective "to contribute to the construction of a new stage" of the sharing of wealth. Responsible for the case to the UMP, Frédéric Lefebvre and Eric Besson point "uptake" of part of the evolution of remuneration by the leaders (see below) and call for an "alignment" of practices between employees and leaders. Clearly, rebalancing, which could, for example through the inability of leaders to see their pay rise much faster than that of their employees. Over the period 1998-2005, the Economist Camille Landais noted that the 0.1 of the best paid employees had obtained an increase in the average salary of 29.2 and the 0.01 of the top of the ladder (or 2,500 people) a gain of 51.4, 3.1 for the lower-paid 90. "It is a genuine break after a phase of greater stability of the structure of wages", he analysed.
For its part, the mission "of analysis and consultation" on "sharing of added value, the sharing of profits and pay gaps", by Nicolas Sarkozy to the Director General of Insee, Jean-Philippe tax, progress also. Two meetings, the next week and 30 April, are still provided with the social partners, who have managed to agree on the outline of the report: it will integrate including several approaches to the sharing of value added (the boundary between wage earnings and capital, evolution of samples...), and it will take stock of the "dispersion of wage income" and "net profits and their use".with a State of the premises on disparities between firms. Hostile to the launch of this debate since the beginning, the Medef, which underlines the degradation of the overall financial situation of companies, seems nevertheless reassured by this "process, which provides in advance the establishment of a diagnosis, to ensure that the terms of debate are clear", indicates its Associate Director General, Jean-Charles Simon.
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The Council of economic analysis (CAE), placed to the Prime Minister also asked in the debate, a report to Gilbert this (France Bank), and which should be completed by the end of the month. A report on the share of value added had already been published by the CAE ten years ago. "It's a recurring theme of majorities to power, they are right or left", is an economist. It should not contradict the work of the mission tax: last week, the CAE members found themselves, with the Director General of Insee, for a first discussion.
The follow-up to this debate remain unclear. Neither economists nor indeed the majority take as a basis for work rule of the thirds (investment, shareholders, employees) cited by the head of State for the sharing of profits. In early April, Nicolas Sarkozy repeated that in the absence of an agreement between social partners, a Bill would be presented "in the summer." A UMP, means forward concrete measures as early as next month, in particular on governance in the companies. A corpus that could quickly turn into Bill.
