The 1.6% increase in the minimum wage and "low wages" of civil servants will cost "a little over 1 billion euros", according to the government
The executive had announced this week, in the midst of social mobilizations, the increase in the minimum wage by 1.6% from December 1st and that of "low wages" for more than a million public sector employees.
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde Economie has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.