Seven days before the legislative elections in France, around fifteen federations of small and medium-sized businesses are sending a message to future deputies. “Our companies must be safeguarded,” write the authors in a charter initiated by the Ethic employers’ movement.
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“ Business leaders and employees fear that bad economic choices could be made and harm them » can we read in this charter.
To safeguard their businesses, the signatories therefore ask future deputies to commit to 11 points: “ administrative simplification at all levels “, facilitate access to credits or even make the Labor Code “ more flexible and adapted to the realities of small structures “.
A charter that aims to be “ apolitical »
“ The good measures that will come from certain MPs will be welcome for our businesses: simplification, lower taxes, social support for employees. It is a charter which is intended and must be apolitical. Dialogue must be more than necessary and attention must be reinforced otherwise we would head towards chaos », Warns Francis Palombi, the president of the confederation of independent French traders.
Because businesses have been affected in recent months by the surge in energy prices or the rise in interest rates. Last May, the milestone of 60,000 bankruptcies was crossed. A record since 2016.
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