Question 11738 — employment and activity

Summary

Ms. Mireille Clapot draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the possible elimination of the exemption system for the employment of “casual agricultural job seekers” (TO-DE) which benefits employees hired under seasonal fixed-term contracts. Several unions are alarmed by the possible elimination of this system on January 1, 2019. This measure would financially impact the farmers for a sum estimated between 144 and 178 million euros, applied to the seasonal payroll of 2016. The financial loss for an employer per seasonal contract for one month for a salary of 1.10 (SMIC + ICCP) would be 189 euros. For example, on this basis, the overall loss recorded for farmers in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, which represents 119,000 TO-DE contracts in 2016, would amount to 22,509 711 euros per year. The general reduction in charges envisaged by the abolition of the CICE will not compensate for the announced abolition of this exemption. Sectors that heavily employ casual labor, in particular arboriculture, market gardening, horticulture, seed producers and viticulture, will be directly penalized, further degrading their competitiveness, even though France must face a fierce competition from neighboring countries. Such a measure could thus weaken the ecosystem in large arboricultural and wine-growing regions where the workforce is essentially temporary. Given the competition from EU and non-EU countries where the cost of labor is much lower, she asks him what the Government's position is on this issue.

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