François Hollande's promised slight increase in the minimum wage is likely to remain very low, well below the expectations of the trade unions. Nevertheless, the right wing and the bosses' association are condemning the measure in the name of “competitiveness.” The right wing is organizing a full-scale attack against boosting the minimum wage. A pseudo academy of five economists backed by the head of the MEDEF, the French bosses' association – a self-proclaimed “group of experts on the minimum (...)-Economy

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