
The Prime Minister presented a series of measures during a social conference in Matignon, including an increase in the minimum wage and the extension of the fuel bonus.
At the end of a social conference, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced an increase in the minimum wage of 1.6% on December 1 and the extension of the fuel bonus in 2027, despite criticism from unions and employers.
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The government is seeking to respond to social tensions six months before the presidential election. The minimum wage has already seen several automatic increases linked to inflation in 2026.
“The government’s duty is to commit to realistic and achievable promises.” At the end of the social conference organized in Matignon on Monday November 9, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu made several announcements to try to calm social anger.
Recalling the constrained budgetary and political framework in which he finds himself, six months before the presidential election, the head of government nevertheless proposed "solutions", promising that it was not a question of "a balance for all accounts" but that this "open[ed] a sequence of discussion". Franceinfo summarizes the measures announced.
The minimum wage increased by 1.6%
The minimum wage will be increased by 1.6% on December 1, according to Minister of Labor Jean-Pierre Farandou. The increase will be 0.6% at the initiative of the government, in addition to its automatic revaluation of 1% due to inflation. The minimum wage will reach around 1,502 euros per month, almost 24 euros more than today.
This is "the second largest increase in 20 years", said Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, defending a "boost" which "is not just symbolic". “I think we should not despise” this increase decided by the government, a first since 2012, he added. The head of government also believes that it will "not be a source of job destruction", as employers fear.
Marylise Léon, the general secretary of the CFDT, estimated that an increase in the minimum wage was “a good thing” while deeming this 1.6% increase “insufficient”. “The government has only announced crumbs to us,” denounced Sophie Binet, the general secretary of the CGT, noting that the minimum wage should automatically “increase by 18 euros on January 1.” “A boost of 5 euros is a kilo of tomatoes. (...) Five dollars and not even a March,” she joked.
“We are providing a bad response to a real problem,” Patrick Martin, the president of Medef, also reacted on franceinfo. The employers' leader recalls that there have been three increases in the minimum wage in 2026, due to inflation, and that "no one is talking about employment, investment and growth anymore", which he considers to be "the real answer" to the loss of purchasing power of the French.
The extended fuel bonus
The fuel bonus, tax-free aid of up to 1,000 euros which employers can grant to their employees, will be extended in 2027, also announced the Minister of the Economy Roland Lescure. Its extension will be integrated into the bill on financing Social Security, he specified. Faced with soaring fuel prices, the government announced at the end of September to raise the ceiling of this aid paid by employers from 600 to 1,000 euros.
Reduced contributions for businesses
As part of the budgetary discussions, the government will also propose raising to 10,000 euros the existing ceiling of 7,500 euros beyond which overtime is taxed, continued Commerce Minister Serge Papin. The government will also propose "exempting (...) the cost of public transport subscriptions at 75%", he added. He will also propose "opening up to companies with more than 50 employees" the CSG exemption for the bonus for sharing the value of a company, a profit-sharing scheme for employees, he declared.
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Extension of the fuel bonus in the Social Security financing bill.
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