Saturday, January 17, 2015

Social dialogue: trade unions and employers do not agree – Europe1

Social dialogue: trade unions and employers do not agree – Europe1

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Pierre Gattaz, head of MEDEF, in a speech December 3, 2014 Lyon. © AFP
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“last session” will result in an agreement. Unions and employers have failed to agree on Saturday after a marathon negotiation, to simplify and improve social dialogue in the workplace. They, however, give a new chance to meet the demand of the government that agreement or not, wants to legislate quickly. No new meeting date has been set at this stage, the CFDT suggesting a possible meeting next week. “We will set another date to continue negotiations and try to lift the blockages that persist, there are still large,” said Joseph Thouvenel (CFTC)

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The chamber gives up an agreement, but confident for the future ?. After four months of negotiations and a record sequence – two days and one full night – the employer (MEDEF and UPA) has thrown up at dawn to present a new text after learning even criticism of unions. “We’ll see after the next final session,” “I’m not disappointed, negotiation is not over,” insisted his side the leader of the delegation of MEDEF Alexandre Saubot

The mid-furious unions, disillusioned middle . A tone that contrasts with that of the unions, which, themselves, are more disillusioned. “We spent the night waiting” to “hear that there is no text,” he ranted Marie-Alice Medeuf-Andrieu (FO). “That’s the modernization of social dialogue? If that’s the model I pity the employees”, while the quality of the employer-employee relationship was precisely in the heart of the negotiations. “We all go to bed It’s a shame to fail in these conditions.” Lamented Marylise Leon (CFDT)

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MEDEF fails to situate himself . Unions have waited for twelve hours a new employer text. It never happened, without clear limits in the ranks of employers on acceptable amendments by its members. But also because “employers could not be between different approaches’ unions seeking to amend the text, explained Marie-Françoise Leflon (CFE-CGC).

Do not lose anything was condition imposed by the three unions (CFDT, CFTC and CFE-CGC) inclined to accept this great upheaval of the single instance. Friday, they considered the text too “fuzzy” and “ambiguous” on maintaining the privileges of the current authorities and pointed a “lower average”

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MEDEF for a single employee representative body . To alleviate the constraints of enterprises and the famous social thresholds, MEDEF and UPA (craftsmen) want to consolidate all of the employee representation bodies in more than 11 employees in a business “Executives”. In return, they offer a right of representation “universal” for all employees, which should allow those very small companies (TPE, less than 11 employees) to find advice from an external body in each region.

The fate of the health committees, safety and working conditions (HSC) remained throughout the discussions a subject of major concern for the union. The project provides for it to become a committee of the Council, optional 50 to 300 employees and mandatory above. “We were not going to enact such major setbacks for employees,” said Saturday morning Agnès Le Bot (CGT). FO, the project “challenges” more than half a century of acquired rights.

Agreement or not, the government, it will legislate in the second quarter.

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