Question 20558 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Jean-Philippe Nilor questions the Minister for Overseas Territories regarding purchasing power overseas and particularly that of employees paid the minimum wage. The interprofessional minimum wage for growth (SMIC) aimed to guarantee a minimum of purchasing power to employees who have the lowest incomes. In the name of the "principle of equality", on January 1, 1996, the overseas minimum wage, after a long process, finally reached the level of the minimum wage in mainland France. However, the gap is still glaring because it does not take into account cost differences. Cost of foodstuffs and other consumer products, cost of bank rates, postal rates, transport, auto spare parts. Depending on whether you are overseas or in mainland France. Worse still, for the internet or mobile telephony, the price seems inversely proportional to the speed! Se caring is more expensive, according to a recent public study (Rural Family Association, April 2019), overseas prices are up to 66% more expensive than in mainland France in terms of the household basket. In reality, the overseas minimum income completely misses its objective of guaranteeing any purchasing power, particularly for young people. The minimum wage and the reality of the cost of living are totally disconnected from each other. Overseas have been in a state of social emergency for too long. He asks her what concrete measures she intends to take for the increase in social minimums, for the increase in the minimum wage overseas to compensate for the cost of living, for the establishment of a “total free zone” for production and processing activities. Obviously, these measures must necessarily take into account the reality of the Martinican economic fabric composed mainly very small companies faced, in addition, with the impacts linked in particular to the narrowness of the market, insularity, etc. They cannot carry or give rise to a risk of additional inflation.

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