All eyes were also on high schools and universities on this Monday back to school, a week after the government's action plan supposed to respond to the movement of anger among young people which has been expressed since the beginning of autumn.
Already last June, forced into emergency savings measures to best maintain the budgetary trajectory for the year, the government had decided to freeze the scale of general reductions on employer contributions at the time of the revaluation of the SMIC.
The question of a boost to the minimum wage, greater than simple indexation to inflation, is on the table as a test deadline approaches which will have an impact on the government's decision.
In the Senate, the observation on the difficulties of purchasing power is shared across all benches, but there is no consensus on any solution.
The subject deeply divides political parties, while professional branches still display minimums below the minimum wage.
The Horizons line does not go in the direction of a revaluation above inflation either.
Other figures from the right and the center, however, appear more skeptical, or even opposed, to this idea of a more marked increase in the minimum wage.
On the socialist side, a boost would be seen as a minimum to support households.
“A boost is something that can be considered, but not in a dry way, otherwise it would be to transfer the problem of the purchasing power of our fellow citizens onto businesses, whose situation today is worrying, if not very worrying,” indicated a source on these benches.
This development concerns 2.1 million employees, excluding the public sector and the agricultural sector, according to available data.