PARIS—Most unions at U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon’s French arm rejected the company’s 2022 pay proposal on the final day of talks, but no immediate industrial action is planned, union representatives said.
A group unions had proposed a 5 percent pay increase to compensate for a sharp rise in inflation in France. The company, meanwhile, offered a 3.5 percent general increase from June 1, with only the CFE-CGC management union accepting the terms, union sources said.
“In any other year this would have been a good proposal but, since December, inflation is rocketing, with energy, food, and other prices going up sharply,” said Jean-Francois Berot, a representative of the SUD union.
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