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France Raises Minimum Wage and Begins €100 Fuel Payouts

The automatic SMIC increase of 2.41% with rolling fuel payments highlights growing doubts about whether indexation alone will protect low‑paid workers.

Le 1er juin 2026 sera le moment d’une hausse du smic ou de l’entrée en vigueur de la revalorisation du RSA.
Le SMIC va augmenter à partir du 1er juin. [Romain Doucelin / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP]
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Overview

  • The legal minimum wage (SMIC) rose by 2.41%, a change that took effect on June 1 and adds about €35 net per month for a full‑time worker.
  • The government opened the online portal on impots.gouv.fr for a one‑off €100 fuel payment for eligible 'grands rouleurs' and initial approved claims are being paid within roughly ten days.
  • Around 70% of professional branch pay scales start below the new SMIC, forcing those branches to reopen pay negotiations within a 45‑day window to restore legal compliance.
  • Regulatory and targeted relief moves are arriving in June, including sectoral extensions of fuel aid for fishermen and farmers, a 4.8% cut to June’s reference gas price announced by the CRE, and the timing of RSA and student mobility payments that will show effects this month.
  • The government favors targeted measures over a discretionary SMIC boost and has delayed transposing the EU pay‑transparency directive into French law until summer or autumn, a choice that unions say leaves broader wage pressure unaddressed.