Employment: “Work must pay”, urges Bruno Le Maire – archyde

The Minister of the Economy pointed out a situation where “everyone is losing”: “the companies because they cannot find their needs and the employees themselves who find that they do not have not fair remuneration for their work “.

While many companies say they face recruiting challenges, the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, even considering that it is “the number one subject” , the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire estimated Wednesday August 25 on BFM Business that if a certain number of sectors are struggling to recruit, it is because they are not sufficiently attractive.

Asked on the sidelines of the Meeting of entrepreneurs of France, organized by Medef, the tenant in Bercy declared that “there are a certain number of activities, it can be in the restoration, in the medico-social, in low-skilled workers where there are levels of remuneration that are not attractive and everyone loses. Companies because they cannot find their needs and the employees themselves who find that they do not. do not have fair remuneration for their work. ”

For “better remuneration” in the country

Bruno Le Maire therefore proposes “that we all sit around a table and look at sector by sector, type of activity by type of activity, type of contract by type of contract to see what are the remuneration problems that continue to arise in France “. “Work must pay,” he insisted.

The Minister of the Economy also dismissed the responsibility of young people in recruitment difficulties. “We do not go very far when we say ‘all young people are lazy, they no longer want to work’,” he said. “I do not believe at all that this is the reality. It is better to look calmly at what are the working hours, what are the material constraints, what is the level of remuneration. Does that correspond to what can be the ‘expectation of a young person of 18, 20, 22 years old today? Rather than pointing fingers or giving lessons in morality, we must provide answers that require better remuneration, “he explained .

“Let us look together if we can not do more so that there is better remuneration in our country”, concluded the Minister.