Question 14319 — employment and activity

Summary

Mr. Grégory Besson-Moreau alerts the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the threats weighing on the exemption system for the employment of occasional agricultural workers (TO-DE). This system could be abolished by the Government on January 1, 2019. This measure would have a financial impact on farmers to the tune of 144 to 178 million euros applied to the 2016 seasonal payroll. The financial loss, for one employer by seasonal contract for one month for a salary equivalent to the minimum wage (+ paid vacation compensation) would be 189 euros. On this basis, the overall loss recorded for farmers in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, who registered 119,099 TODE contracts in 2016, would amount to 22.5 million euros per year. The general reduction in charges envisaged to replace the tax credit for competitiveness and employment does not will not compensate for the announced removal of this TODE 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 fierce competition from neighboring countries. He asks him if the Government plans to sustainably compensate for this loss which threatens the relocation of our agricultural production and the rapid decline of a sector of activity which employs 14% of French workers.

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