employers’ organizations ask the federal government to protect “contribution reductions” for firms | EUROtoday

The three major employers’ organizations requested, Monday, December 8, the federal government to “clearly renounce any reduction in contribution reductions” social companies to economize. “Cutting them down again is a tax on employment. And a tax on employment is a tax on tomorrow’s wages”estimate Medef, the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME) and U2P (native companies) in a joint press launch. At “instead of helping the country to create activity, we choose to tax what makes the economy run”nonetheless deplore the three organizations.

The 2025 Social Security financing regulation diminished by 1.6 billion euros the reductions in employer social contributions for 2025 and 2026, which had soared lately, reaching nearly 80 billion euros.

From now on, “it is planned to add another 1.5 billion euros of additional reduction” subsequent yr, employers’ organizations are frightened.

“It’s the worst message to send”

The Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou, just lately affirmed that these reductions in reductions might double and thus attain 3 billion euros in 2026, whereas the federal government is searching for by all means to make financial savings.

“It’s the worst message to send”proclaim the organizations, warning of the rise in enterprise failures in September year-on-year. Especially since “these reductions are in addition to other decisions already taken or announced: exceptional contribution to the profits of large companies, increase in certain employer contributions on contractual terminations, reduction in apprenticeship aid”they guarantee.

This name comes on the eve of the vote on the Social Security funds which guarantees to be extraordinarily tight for the federal government of Sébastien Lecornu, even when the Socialist Party has introduced that it desires to vote on the textual content.