Who will benefit from the Value Sharing Act?

The government is presenting the unions with an olive branch this Wednesday in the Council of Ministers. This gesture of peace, after the complicated period of the pension reformis contained in a bill which faithfully reproduces the national interprofessional agreement (ANI) on the value sharing signed at the beginning of the year by employers and unions (apart from the CGT).

So that employees can better benefit from the profits, the text provides for experimental devices for five years. The most significant extends to companies with 11 to 49 employees the obligation to put in place value-sharing mechanisms (profit-sharing, bonuses or participation) once they have generated a net profit at least equal to 1% of their turnover for three consecutive years. Majority estimates point to a measure that will benefit “more than 1.5 million employees“. As for companies with at least 50 employees, they will have to negotiate sharing arrangements in…