Employment & Labor

#TRST2610658AFrance Extends 2026 Wage Scales for Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Sector

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This order makes the 2026 collectively agreed wage scales mandatory across France’s laundry, laundromat, linen rental, dry-cleaning, pressing, and dyeing sector. Employers covered by the national collective agreement must apply the wage tables set in the 11 February 2026 amendment, effective from 1 January 2026. The practical impact is payroll compliance. Businesses in the sector should check that pay levels match the extended wage scales from the date the order is published, while employees gain sector-wide enforceability of the negotiated rates.

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Key Changes

  • Makes the 2026 sector wage scales mandatory for all covered employers and employees
  • Applies to the laundry, laundromat, linen rental, dry-cleaning, pressing, and dyeing sector
  • Takes effect from publication of the order for the remaining duration set by the wage amendment

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Apply the wage scales set by the 11 February 2026 amendment to all covered employees under the national collective agreement for laundry, laundromat, linen rental, dry-cleaning, pressing and dyeing activities.

employers covered by the national collective agreement for laundry, laundromat, linen rental, dry-cleaning, pressing and dyeing
From the date of publication of the order in the Journal officiel; wage scales are applicable under the amendment from 1 January 2026
operational

Affected Parties

Employers in the laundry and dry-cleaning sectorEmployees covered by the sector’s national collective agreement+1 more…

Tags

wage scales,collective agreement,laundry sector