Anne Hidalgo wants negotiations on higher wages and issue of working time

The socialist candidate estimates that a rise in working time is a “misinterpretation” and that you have to go to “increases of all wages”.

Le Monde

Anne Hidalgo wants to put the question of working conditions and wages at the heart of his campaign. The Socialist candidate said Sunday, October 10th it was “for an increase in the SMIC and all wages”. “We have a huge level of salary level, the work does not pay,” said the mayor of Paris in” Sunday in politics “ on France 3, insisting in particular on the situation of” middle classes and popular categories ” .

Concerning the SMIC, the candidate wishes to “go to an increase of 10 to 15%, at least” but considers that this decision, like the, more global, to increase all wages, must go through negotiations in All branches. “I believe in social dialogue, it is to the social partners to discuss it,” she insisted.

“Refit the question of how we share his time”

These negotiations would also be an opportunity to “rest the question of working time,” said M me hidalgo. According to her, “the working conditions have deteriorated a lot, the teleworking has grown up”, so “we must rest the question of how one shares its time”. This close to Martine Aubry, who had worn the week of the thirty-five hours, was interviewed on the idea of ​​the thirty-two hours. “It’s not a president to decide, but the policy is there to give an impulse” and “the left has always gave this impetus,” said the socialist.

In Paris, she “refuses to increase the working time of the chumbutoats or [u] early childhood staff”, who “have been on the front line”. According to this former inspector of the work, “going towards an increase in working time is a misinterpretation”, and the Government of Jean Castex, which it judges “right”, “does not want to ask these topics of social progress”. M me Hidalgo, whose investiture by the Socialist Party must be confirmed Thursday, called the left wing of Macronia, where there are former socialists, to join her.

As a large corporate reform, the candidate also promises, “from the beginning of the five-year” in 2022, to enforce “the right to die in dignity”. “It’s only too long since the majority of the French are for”, she argues, while the subject of euthanasia was strongly debated at the National Assembly and that the executive referred this ” Major societal question “to the presidential debate.

/Media reports.