Employment & Labor

#TRST2615558AFrance Extends Minimum Wage Agreement for Garden Centres and Seed Retailers

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

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🇬🇧 English

This order makes the 2 April 2026 agreement on sector minimum wages mandatory for all employers and employees covered by France’s national collective agreement for garden centres and seed retailers. Businesses in the sector must apply the agreed minimum wage rates from the order’s publication date, while still respecting France’s statutory minimum wage rules. Employers should check payroll settings and ensure no covered employee is paid below the new agreed minimums.

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Key Changes

  • Makes the 2 April 2026 sector minimum wage agreement mandatory across the garden centre and seed retail collective agreement
  • Applies to all employers and employees covered by the sector’s national collective agreement
  • Requires wage minima to remain compliant with France’s statutory minimum wage

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Apply the minimum wage rates set by the 2 April 2026 agreement on conventional minimum wages to all covered employees under the national collective agreement for garden centres and seed retailers.

employers covered by the national collective agreement for garden centres and seed retailers
From the publication date of the order in the French Official Journal
operational
high

Ensure that the extended sector minimum wage rates are applied only in compliance with French regulatory provisions setting the statutory minimum wage (SMIC), so that no covered employee is paid below the applicable statutory minimum wage.

employers covered by the national collective agreement for garden centres and seed retailers
From the publication date of the order in the French Official Journal
operational

Affected Parties

Garden centre and seed retail employers in FranceEmployees covered by the garden centres and seed retailers collective agreement+1 more…

Tags

minimum wages,collective agreement,garden centres…