Question 13719 — employment and activity

Summary

Mr. Grégory Besson-Moreau alerts the Minister of Agriculture and Food about the exemption from employer contributions for the employment of occasional workers seeking agricultural employment (TO-DE). This system could disappear on January 1, 2019 as part of the vote on the social security financing bill. In an extremely tense climate, this is a hard blow that the Government would deal to the agricultural world and in a more general to rurality. He doesn't understand the point of removing a device that works. Sectors that rely heavily on the employment of seasonal workers such as horticulture, market gardening or viticulture would be seriously penalized. Thus, seasonal employers are preparing to suffer an increase in labor costs of more than one euro per hour, i.e. 189 euros per month and per contract (plus 15 million euros for the only Champagne appellation). The consequences will be serious for the economy of the agricultural world: a rise in prices in France, but on the other hand an opportunity for foreign importers, the risk of foreign service companies entering the French labor market and above all the threat of disappearance of a certain number of farms, family farms in particular. Faced with these considerable risks for a sector whose economic weight for France no longer needs to be demonstrated and which employs 14% of French workers, he asks it to reverse this decision and maintain the exemption system for the employment of casual workers and agricultural job seekers (TO-DE). The survival of a profession that finally deserves help and support is at stake.

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