MOSCOW (MRC) -- French oil and gas major Total SA has offered a 3.1 percent increase in compensation plus an exceptional 1,500-euro bonus to all employees in France, reported Reuters with reference to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said.
Pouyanne said on Twitter that the offer was made to unions, taking into account the company’s good results in 2018.
Total held its annual salary negotiation with unions on Tuesday.
Around 32 percent of the company’s 98,000 employees were in France as of the end of December 2017, according to company documents.
The increase and bonus measure comes after a week-long strike in November over pay and bonuses by hard-left union CGT. The protest disrupted production and distribution at Total’s refineries and fuel depots in France.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday urged companies that are able to do so to offer an exceptional bonus to their employees to boost purchasing power, as part of measures to appease the so-called yellow vests protests that have rocked France in the past weeks.
Several French companies including media and telecom groups Orange, Publicis, Iliad and Altice announced employee bonuses on Tuesday, while bosses of major banks agreed to freeze the fees they charge households next year in a show of support for Macron’s plan.
As MRC informed before, in December 2017, Total inaugurated the new units at its Antwerp integrated refining & petrochemicals platform, which have progressively started up in the previous few months.
Total S.A. is a French multinational oil and gas company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world with business in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia. The company's petrochemical products cover two main groups: base chemicals and the consumer polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene) that are derived from them.
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