Question 12159 — employment and activity

Summary

Ms. Émilie Bonnivard draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy and Finance to the very serious concerns of the agricultural profession since the announcement of the elimination, on January 1, 2019, of the exemption system for the employment of seasonal workers. Indeed, employers in the agricultural sector today have an exemption system in order to hire seasonal employees, a system which makes it possible to lower the cost of labor in sectors such as viticulture, arboriculture, nurseries, horticulture or market gardeners. The removal of this exemption will lead to an increase in the remainder payable by employers from 1.8% to 3.8%. Therefore, 144 million euros in losses will hit the agricultural sectors which use an essentially seasonal workforce. This removal of the exemption system will worsen the distortion of competition in Europe, facing producing countries whose production cost is less than 35% in Spain, for example, due to the lower cost of labor. Reversing this reduction means increasing the cost of labor by more than one euro per hour, or 189 euros per month per contract. The competitiveness of sectors that heavily employ casual labor will be degraded. Also, the risk of disappearance of a certain number of farms is a certainty. This is why it asks him to maintain this exemption system for the employment of casual workers and agricultural job seekers, or, at the very least, to put in place a system of reduction of agricultural social charges to compensate for the loss caused by this elimination.

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