The president of MEDEF Pierre Gattaz October 14, 2014 (AFP / File / Eric Piermont)
After four months of discussion, it is in principle session last chance Friday for a Labor-union agreement that simplifies and enhances social dialogue in companies deemed “too formal” and perceived as a brake on hiring by the government.
The chamber must present at 11:00 a new text to the unions, the one with which he had arrived on Thursday did not find favor. Trade unions predict a long session that will repeat the “same exercise” decrypting of text and against-proposals, as Marylise Leon (CFDT)
The chamber hopes to “raise some ambiguities to reassure everyone. . “with the new text
But it does not démordra his main idea: to create a single instance, the” Executives “, merging the existing works council, the Health Committee , safety and working conditions (HSC), staff delegates and union representatives. MEDEF negotiator Alexander Saubot clearly warned that without this instance, “there will be no final agreement.”
The text carried by the MEDEF and UPA (craftsmen) specifies that the Board, set up from the 11th employee, will aim to negotiate enterprise agreements.
But the third employers’ organization, the CGPME, always stand apart, claiming it was too favorable to the project large companies and not to small.
The unions do not reject the idea of a merger, the CFDT, CFE-CGC and CFTC require prerogatives of the body does not disappear passage.
“All the powers and instances means will be maintained and transferred to the single instance”, guaranteed Mr Saubot Thursday night. It remains to “write” clearly asking the unions
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They are particularly concerned about occupational health issues, the responsibility of HSC, which would become an optional board in companies with fewer than 300 employees and mandatory in the largest.
The unions also fear for their resources and delegation of hours.
According to Agnès Le Bot (CGT), the project is “scandalous” on this subject, with average halved according to the union.
The government has asked the social partners to propose a reform likely, he says, to help job. He claimed that the issue of business “without staff representatives” to be processed.
The very small enterprises (VSE, fewer than 11 employees, some 4.5 million employees) are particularly affected. For them, the MEDEF-UPA text provides a “display device” via branch agreements where there is not already. And failing, social dialogue will be led
(L to R) Representatives of the CGT Mohammed Aussedik Agnes Le Bot and Alain Alphon-Layre are meeting on social dialogue October 9, 2014 in Paris (AFP / Archive / Patrick Kovarik)
“This is a real victory,” said the CFDT, emphasizing “not” of MEDEF, who fought these committees for 13 years. “The employers had no choice,” the government would have anyway made the decision, within its FO side.
The commission, however, will only have a mission to “advice” and ” information. ” In “no case” they may not “intervene in a business”, so negotiate, the statement said.
This concession, CGPME, hostile from the start to an external representation is not favorable . But the MEDEF does not need his signature. In December 2013, it was passed for the agreement on the reform of vocational training.
union side, for an agreement to be valid, it must receive the approval of organizations totaling at least 30% of the vote professional and do not meet more than 50% opposition.
An alliance between the CFDT (29.7%) and another organization is needed. To block the CGT (30.6%) would in turn need two other unions. These rules “give some weight to the pen I have in hand,” warned Joseph Thouvenel (CFTC).
With or without agreement, the government has already announced a law in the second quarter.
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