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Wages and SMIC (minimum wage), Fabien Roussel

Wage increases and indexation: Restore the sliding scale: all wages indexed to prices

Direction of change: increase, compared with current law.

The lever. Rules that make wages rise beyond the SMIC (minimum wage): indexation to prices, wage conferences, sector-level bargaining obligations. Direction rule: ↑ wages better protected by law (indexation, minimum rates, mandatory bargaining).

« Nous demandons de rétablir l'échelle mobile des salaires pour que tous les salaires augmentent quand les prix augmentent. »1

Translation by the editorsWe are asking for the sliding wage scale to be restored so that all wages rise when prices rise.

Words of Fabien Roussel, pcf.fr, « Université d'été 2026 - Discours de Fabien Roussel » (Toulouse), 26 August 2026. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme.

No programme released. Positions taken from public statements, words of associates or documents of the candidate’s party, each dated and sourced; last recorded on 18 October 2026.

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No cost-schedule parameter for this position: see the costing for the reason.

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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. No automatic indexation of private-sector wages to prices (only the SMIC is indexed, Labour Code, Art. L3231-4 et seq.). In the civil service, the value of the public sector pay index point is set by decree.

Horizon. Full year, €bn per year, in 2022 euros, not updated for 2032

Limits. Not costed here: the cost of the civil service pay index point is carried by the « fonction-publique » lever. Indexation of private sector wages (sliding scale) has no direct static budgetary cost, except through public employers and indexed benefits: not costed. Benchmark: iFRAP 2022 costs « 2 points » [“2 points”] of index point value at €4bn (the think tank's own costing), consistent with the official cost of one point, €2.17bn to €2.27bn (Senate, 2022 and 2023 increases), carried by the « fonction-publique » lever.

How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.

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  1. pcf.fr, « Université d'été 2026 - Discours de Fabien Roussel » (Toulouse), 26 August 2026. Words of Fabien Roussel. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme. Read the source (pcf.fr, « Université d'été 2026 - Discours de Fabien Roussel » (Toulouse)).

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