Guaranteed interprofessional minimum wage

In France, the interprofessional minimum wage guaranteed ( SMIG ) was the minimum hourly salary which a worker could touch. It was created in France by the law of the February 11th 1950. The SMIG was replaced in 1970 by the SMIC and by the Minimum guaranteed which is used as a basis of calculation for the allowance of certain social security benefit.

The value of the SMIG was fixed by the higher Commission of the collective agreements, created by a decree of the March 3rd 1950, which had the responsibility of evaluate the composition of the average budget of the households to be used for the determination of the value of the SMIG.

In August 1950, the first Commission Report is presented in the Council of Ministers, this one then takes a decree establishing the 1st SMIG with 64 Francs (78 Fr in Île-de-France). This decree did not apply in a certain number of French departments (the departments of Algeria, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique and Réunion whose SMIG will be defined thereafter, according to the local conditions), as with the agricultural professions for which a SMAG will be set up.

Nowadays, certain people use always wrongly the term SMIG to indicate current SMIC.

Rapporteurs of the bill

Mrs. Marcelle Devaud, draftsman of an opinion of the commission of justice
Mr. Abel Burand, draftsman of an opinion of the commission of the marine and fishings.
Mr. Pierre de Villoutreys, draftsman of an opinion of the commission of the industrial production
Mr. Pierre de Felice, draftsman of an opinion of the Committee on Agriculture
Mr. Georges Laffargue, president and draftsman of an opinion of the commission of the economic affairs
Mr. Marc Bardon-Damarzid, draftsman of an opinion of the commission of justice

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