PARIS (AA) - French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin called on "part of employers to raise wages if possible" during an interview with radio station RTL.
The minister added that in his view there is "a wage problem" in France.
"A worker, an employee who works must be paid the right wage," the interior minister said in the interview.
When asked if the current situation, with the numerous strikes and demonstrations in France, indicated a major social movement, Darmanin said that "the social weather is very difficult to predict."
He added: "What is certain is that people are finding that their wages have not kept pace with price increases."
Continuing Darmanin told the radio station: "And they are finding that some of the bosses are paying themselves and that this pay is out of proportion to what some of the workers are getting."
"If you're sensitive to the future of your people, as the president of the republic is, you find together that yes, part of the wages must be increased."
After several weeks of strikes in refineries and a few days before the first wave of vacations, several French unions on Tuesday called on public and private sector workers to stop work and demonstrate, in particular to demand higher wages.