The day after Gabriel Attal spoke on TF1 news, employers showed themselves satisfied with the Prime Minister’s commitment not to increase taxes on businesses. He also stressed that it is up to the social partners to develop the outlines of a future reform of unemployment insurance. The president of Medef “well heard” Gabriel Attal’s “red line”, Wednesday evening on TF1, not to increase taxes on businesses, “among the most taxed in the world and which create jobs”, underlined Patrick Martin in a press release. “It is also our red line and we will be vigilant to ensure that it is not crossed,” he insisted.
Patrick Martin, head of the first organization representing employers, stressed that “the social partners will take up, when the time comes, a project for a new reform of unemployment insurance”, as desired. the Prime Minister. “This reform is possible,” he conceded, without reacting directly to the measures that Patrick Attal seems to want, “but the objective of full employment that we share” will first be achieved “if economic activity recovers a satisfactory level. “It is obvious that public policies must support investment, activity and therefore employment,” added Patrick Martin, while one of the causes of the sharp increase in the public deficit in 2023, to 5.5% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), is the drop in tax and social revenues, “testifying to the economic slowdown”.
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The CPME, the second employers’ organization, also considered the desire not to increase taxes “positive”, and hoped that the commitment to completely eliminate the CVAE production tax would be kept by the end of the five-year term. “When France has more than three million compensated job seekers and, at the same time, business leaders are having the greatest difficulty recruiting, it is essential to act to promote a return to employment », Continues the CPME.
But she also emphasizes that it is up to the social partners to “take the necessary measures”. She says she is “in favor of returning to the minimum membership period to benefit from compensation”, but “does not wish to reduce the amount” of it. The CPME deplores that Gabriel Attal did not mention the public debt or “the reform of public action” and the number of civil servants on Wednesday. “Concerning only the expenditure of social systems will not be enough” to restore public finances, she believes.
