A new study was published that measures the employers' coverage and the impact of the representativeness of the branches on these companies. Measuring the employer audience also makes it possible to determine the coverage rate of employers' organizations in a given branch. This kind of systematic measurement of the audience of employers 'organizations at the national, inter-professional and professional levels was set up for the first time in 2017. The study shows that one in four companies, on average, are members of an employers' organization while two out of three employees work in these companies. In general, it is in sectors where employment is highly concentrated around a few large companies that employee coverage rates are high. Furthermore it appears that conventional wages are slightly higher in the branches where the employers coverage is high
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