2023-12-31 08:47:49
As at the start of every year, January 1st arrives with its share of new things. This year 2024 marks, among other things, the mechanical increase in the amount of the minimum wage, that of the price of tobacco, the revaluation of pensions, or even the lowering of the minimum age for obtaining a driving license. Le Parisien takes stock.
The revalued minimum wage
The 17% of employees who receive the minimum wage benefit from a mechanical increase in the minimum wage of 1.13% this year, bringing their gross hourly salary to 11.65 euros, compared to 11.52 euros currently. Full-time, the gross monthly minimum wage will reach 1,766.92 euros, an increase of 19.72 euros.
Pôle emploi becomes France Travail
A new name and a new logo. Pôle emploi is getting a makeover and officially becomes France Travail on January 1st. The new public body brings together Pôle emploi, Cap emploi (for disabled people) and local missions. Each registered with France Travail will sign an “engagement contract”, providing for an “action plan specifying the objectives of social and professional integration”.
RSA recipients will be automatically registered with France Travail, while 40% of them are not currently registered with Pôle emploi, a measure aimed at bringing them closer to the world of work. These beneficiaries will also have to complete fifteen hours of weekly activity (immersions, refreshers, CV writing). After a test phase, this measure will be generalized in 2025.
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Better paid internships
The compensation for internships will increase from 4.05 euros per hour of actual presence to 4.35 euros, or around 10 euros more per week. This is a minimum amount, which can therefore be exceeded. As a reminder, when the duration of an internship in a company exceeds two months, consecutive or not, over the school or university year, the employer must pay a bonus to the intern.
As for the internships of professional high school students carried out since the start of the 2023 school year, they will give rise with retroactive effect to an allowance from the month of January, ranging from 50 euros per week in second grade, to 100 euros in final year.
Driving license from age 17
Élisabeth Borne has decided to lower the legal age for taking a driving license to 17 years old. The objective is to promote the mobility and integration of apprentices and high schools in the vocational sector. Enough to increase the number of license candidates – one million last year for a success rate of 58%. But driving school professionals fear a shortage of inspectors.
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Depending on the region, the wait for an exam date varies from a few weeks to several months. A delay which may generate additional costs for candidates. “This measure is ultimately neither social nor safe,” regrets Patrice Bessone of the Mobilians union, while young drivers are the most affected by accidents.
End of point withdrawal for minor speeding violations
Announced last April by Gérald Darmanin, the end of the point withdrawal for speeding below 5 km/h will be applied from 2024. Today punished with a reduction of one point on the license to drive and a fixed fine ranging from 68 to 135 euros, these minor speeding offenses will now only be punished by a fine.
The reduction of one point on the driving license in the event of excess speed below 5 km/h ends as of January 1, 2024, as indicated by a decree of December 6, 2023.https://t.co/j0cXeAvufN
— DILA (@DILA_officiel) December 20, 2023
Described as “common sense” by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, this measure was on the contrary accused of “nonsense” by the League once morest road violence.
The price of Navigo increases
2.30 euros more! In 2024, the monthly Navigo price increases to 86.40 euros. This new increase of around 2.8% follows that of 11.8% applied in 2023. The single ticket will sell on Monday at 2.15 euros (compared to 2.10 euros). The booklet of ten will cost 17.35 euros, or 1.73 euros per unit. As for the annual Navigo all zones, it costs almost 25 euros (950.40 euros).
Valérie Pécresse (LR), the president of Île-de-France Mobilités, the authority in charge of transport, justifies this new increase by the future services deployed: extensions of several metro, tram and RER lines, and the he arrival in 2026 of the Grand Paris Express supermetro.
Despite a financing agreement concluded with the government to provide new tax resources, users will be required to contribute by regular increases until 2031.
The year 2024 is also that of the Paris Olympics. More than 10 million visitors are expected next summer. Special rates will be in place from July 20 to September 8 to finance the offer, up 15%. The single ticket will increase to 4 euros in order to dissuade visitors from crowding the ticket offices, and direct them towards the Paris 2024 pass at 16 euros per day (or 70 euros per week). Ile-de-France residents without a Navigo subscription are warned: they will need to stock up on t+ tickets before July to escape the Olympic surge.
Other changes for motorists
The government finances an electric car rental offer, whether new or used, for less than 100 euros per month excluding insurance. This rental offer is accessible to households whose reference tax income does not exceed 15,400 euros per year per share. It is initially reserved for “heavy riders”, who live 15 km or more from their work or travel more than 8,000 km per year.
In Strasbourg, Lyon and Grenoble, vehicles classified Crit’Air 4, that is to say diesel cars before 2006 and two-wheelers before July 2004, can no longer circulate during the day, on weekdays. , in low emission zones (ZFE).
Signs warning of EPZs have been placed around metropolises, like here in Paris. LP/Jean-Baptiste Quentin
Individuals can now drop off up to eight used tires per year free of charge at a distributor, with no obligation to purchase new tires. This measure will concern sellers of tires for cars, vans and motorized two or three-wheelers, and applies to businesses which have a tire sales area of at least 250 m2, including storage space.
Mandatory sorting of bio-waste
As of January 1, as required by law, local authorities must provide their residents with a bio-waste collection system. This includes fruit and vegetable peelings, egg shells, bones and meat rinds. But also expired uneaten food and green waste such as lawn clippings, pruning of shrubs, hedges and twigs.
Bio-waste represents 30% of the contents of French people’s trash, or 83 kg per inhabitant per year, which can, on a domestic scale, be transformed into fertilizer via a composter, or be converted into biogas by a methanization plant.
In addition to restaurants, canteens, hotels or campsites which also have the obligation to sort their bio-waste, towns and intermunicipalities are supposed to organize the regular collection of these new bins with brown lids by specific skips, or install bins compost in the street. More than a hundred cities such as Lille, Bordeaux, Rennes, Niort, Lorient, Nevers, Pau, Arras and Clermont-Ferrand have already committed to a process of sorting at source and separate collection of biowaste, but two thirds of French people will not have a solution at their disposal on January 1st.
Rise in the price of cigarettes
After an increase last May, the price of tobacco will increase once more at the start of 2024. The one who was still Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, presented his national plan to combat smoking at the end of November and confirmed this increase. Most packages will increase by 50 cents, and even up to 1 euro for some. The 12 euro mark will thus be crossed for several brands.
Revaluation of pensions
General system pensions will see an increase in their amount from January 1st. An increase of 5.3% was thus decided “to cope with changes in consumer prices”, indicates the Retirement Insurance website. A revaluation which will be visible on the payment for the month of January, which will take place on February 9.
Help for your home
Changes are coming for MaPrimeRénov’. The system is refocused on large-scale renovations, mainly for thermal strainers (housing classified F and G). To benefit from it, you will need to gain at least two energy classes on the energy performance diagnosis, and carry out at least two insulation actions and one ventilation.
Aid for the installation of air-water or geothermal heat pumps, or connection to an urban heat network, increases from 1,000 to 2,000 euros for low-income and intermediate households. And, to help young people, new entrepreneurs or seasonal workers find a home, owners who rehabilitate housing that has been vacant for more than two years in rural areas to offer them for rental become eligible for a bonus of 5,000 euros per accommodation.
January 1, 2024 also marks the launch of the MaPrimeAdapt’ system. It allows over 70s and disabled people to benefit from assistance in carrying out work to adapt their home, for example replacing the bathtub with a walk-in shower or installing a lift. -electric staircase. This bonus can finance 50 or 70% of the work, depending on the applicant’s resources.
The amount of the repair bonus increases
The amount of the repair bonus will increase by 5 euros on more than twenty devices such as laptops, stoves or even home cinemas. This bonus, which aims to encourage the repair of electronic devices in order to extend their lifespan, will even double for five everyday devices. It will increase to 60 euros for televisions, 50 euros for washing machines, dishwashers and dryers, and 40 euros for vacuum cleaners. In addition, repair for accidental breakage will now be possible.
Nutri-Score rules tightened
Scientists have updated the Nutri-Score algorithm. Products that contain too many unfavorable nutrients (sugar, saturated fat, salt) will see their rating drop. The most significant change will be visible in the breakfast cereal section, with most brands unable to display an A score and will be classified from a C grade. This is particularly the case for Chocapic, which was up to ‘now classified A.
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Red meat, ready-to-eat meals and sodas will see their ratings drop. This new version of the Nutri-Score will prioritize whole foods, rich in fiber, over refined products such as white bread, pasta and rice.
Mbappé, free as air
The PSG star can sign a new contract with another club from January 1. Parisian supporters, don’t panic. The captain of the Blues will not leave this winter and will probably say nothing as long as PSG is at least involved in the Champions League, which for the moment is March 5, the date of the Real Sociedad – PSG return match, in the round of 16 .
But it can stretch the suspense until the end of the championship, as long as Paris is not officially champion of France. The coming six months of competition will weigh in his final choice. A victory on June 1 at Wembley in the C1 final and he would leave. He would then have accomplished his dream: winning the toughest event with his favorite team. He might then migrate to Real Madrid or Liverpool to write a new story.
The Louvre and the Palace of Versailles more expensive
To enter the two most visited monuments in France, you will have to pay a little more in 2024. The Louvre, the largest museum in the world and the busiest, has announced that the full price entry ticket will increase from 17 to 22 euros on January 15, following having been maintained at the same price since 2017. A record increase of almost 30%. Main reasons given: the cost of redevelopment work and acquisition of new works, the reduction in State commitment, but above all the explosion in the energy bill (+ 88%).
Another flagship of French tourism, the Palace of Versailles is also increasing its prices from January 1: an increase of 7.7% for the ticket giving access to the castle, which goes from 19.50 to 21 euros. The passport, which also opens the doors to the Trianon and the gardens, climbs by 11.6%. In both cases, even if the context of the Olympic Games is not mentioned, the two institutions should thus optimize the influx of tourists to Île-de-France during next summer.
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