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SEMEC Cannes sets 1% pay-point rise and reworked June bonus for 2026
1% rise in ETAM and cadre pay points from 1 January 2026, EUR 50,000 individual-raise envelope, EUR 10 meal vouchers and a reworked June activity bonus.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 14 September 2026
The Société d'Economie Mixte pour les Evénements Cannois (SEMEC), the Cannes events company, concluded its 2026 annual pay bargaining round with a protocole d'accord signed in Cannes on 23 September 2025Legifrance by management and the union delegations CFE-CGC, CFDT, CGT and FO. The accord fixes a general 1% rise in the value of the pay point for ETAM staff and for cadres, taking effect on 1 January 2026
Legifrance. The ETAM point moves from EUR 8.764 to EUR 8.852
Legifrance and the cadre point from EUR 13.881 to EUR 14.020
Legifrance. Apprentices, interns, contrats d'intervention and contrats d'usage are excluded from the general rise because they are not subject to the coefficient scales.
On top of the general rise, a gross envelope of EUR 50,000 funds individual increasesLegifrance allocated on managers' recommendations and validated with the general management through the remuneration committees. Individual increases take effect on the February 2026 payroll
Legifrance with retroactive effect to 1 January 2026
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From 1 January 2026 the face value of the titres restaurant rises to EUR 10Legifrance, split EUR 6 employer share and EUR 4 employee share
Legifrance, keeping the current 60/40 funding split. The accord also restates the statutory minimum wage as raised by the arrêté of 23 October 2024, EUR 1,801.80 gross per month on a 35-hour basis from 1 November 2024, subject to later statutory revision; it sets no new minimum of its own
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The accord overhauls the historic prime F.I.F. bonus dating from the company agreement of 8 January 1996, which paid staff working directly on the Festival International du Film each June, and replaces it with a Prime d'activité semestrielle tied to effective work over the first half of each yearLegifrance. For 2026 the ETAM rate is fixed at 30% of the base salary of the month of payment
Legifrance, while for cadres and ETAM at level 5 the amount ranges from 30% to 100% of that base salary at management's discretion according to personal investment
Legifrance. Staff who never received the old FIF bonus are brought into the scheme: all employees, cadres and ETAM alike, receive 30% of their base salary for 2026
Legifrance. The bonus is paid once a year on the June 2026 payroll
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Legifrance, excluding the presidency and general management
Legifrance. Absences over that period reduce the bonus except for statutory maternity, paternity, child-welcome and adoption leave, work and commuting accidents and occupational illness up to 90 days, paid leave, compensatory rest for overtime, RTT days, family-event leave, sick-child leave, training leave and national-service call-up or retention
Legifrance. An absence occurring between payroll processing and 30 June 2026 is regularised the following month.
Effective working time is unchanged. Negative balances on individual modulation accounts that cannot be evened out by the end of the last full working week of the year are carried into the first quarter of 2027. For leave acquired between 1 June 2025 and 31 May 2026, the remaining balance must not exceed 10 days at 31 December 2026Legifrance, with case-by-case flexibility subject to prior HR approval. As an exception, the 2026 journée de solidarité is paid for all staff by the company
Legifrance. A further exceptional year-end bonus for ETAM may be paid depending on company results. The accord runs for a fixed twelve months from the day after completion of the publicity formalities
Legifrance, under articles L.2242-1 and following of the Code du travail, and was filed with the DREETS PACA and the Cannes conseil de prud'hommes.
Apply the 1% pay-point rise and EUR 10 meal vouchers from 1 January 2026 payroll, pay the June activity bonus for first-half presence, and cap 2025-2026 leave balances at 10 days by 31 December 2026.