Is this the end of the “laws Aubry,” which had reduced working time to 35 hours week ? “De facto said Mr. Macron, but through majority agreements” in businesses between management and staff representatives. This umpteenth time the snout of an emblematic issue left sows confusion in the parliamentary majority and is looking up to heaven union leaders.
- What is the current regulations and what changes ? Mr considering Macron
Today, compensation for hours worked in excess of 35 hours receives a boost: + 25% in the absence any agreement. But a boss can drop to 10%, provided that they have entered into a “deal” with its representatives.
The bill, supported by the Minister of Labour, Myriam El Khomri, allow management of a company and unions to agree on a percentage lower than the 10%, if they deem it necessary.
This is essentially what was said Mr. Macron as he spoke Friday morning to the international press. “If you can negotiate majority agreements at the enterprise level for having almost no overcompensation, it means that you can create more flexibility” , he argued.
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A few hours later, at a press conference with French journalists, the minister said his words: “The track is (…) to go below 10%. “ To the question whether the applicable ratio could be zero, he replied: ” I have no desire to give. This will depend on the social partners and the agreement. I support what the law provides capacity for the social partners to decide the level. “
But Mr. Macron went further on one point, claiming that such a decision could result from ” single agreement [30% Voice minimum staff representatives] or majority “. “This is to be defined” , he said.
In the Ministry of Economy, it is argued that these positions are not new. Mr. Macron had already exposed in August 2014, in an interview with the weekly Le Point , a few days before his appointment at Bercy. They correspond, do we believe in the minister’s entourage, “to the path opened by the President in his greetings to company stakeholders and employment” January 18, 2016
Except that Hollande had not been as precise. that day, he had only explained that the bill carried by M me El Khomri, “will rewrite the rules on working time (…) without questioning the legal term” . In this scheme, the company agreement will be oriented “fix the modalities of organization of working time (…) allowing for example to fix the rate of increase and the number overtime “.
- The increase overtime she will be questioned?
Shortly after Mr Hollande, M me El Khomri had expressed the wish that is maintained on 10% floor, but adding that “ everything is on the table” . On January 19, his speech was firmer: “We will not go below 10%. “
Solicited by Le Monde , the cabinet of the Minister of Labour confirms this line: the objective is to ” a larger field business negotiation. But there is no questioning of the minimum rate of increase overtime “.
This quarrel on percentages is anything but Byzantine. As explained by a source in the executive, the front line on the folder, the regulation has evolved over the past ten years and gives great leeway to companies to waive the legal duration of working time.
“There is no questioning of the minimum rate of increase overtime”
If the “35 hours” still retain binding, it is mainly because they serve as a reference for counting the number of overtime hours. Suppose they be rewarded with blows of slingshot or without mark: such an assumption would be “a questioning de facto 35 hours” , should this . source
At the Elysee, it nevertheless maintains that what Mr. Macron not go beyond what is provided: he has only to recall the “diagram opens a large part in the negotiation within companies “, particularly in terms of organization of work. The society leaders “can not decide alone, this can be done in the framework of a majority agreement with employee representatives” .
The intention of the executive, it is added in the entourage of the head of state, is not to torpedo a system put in place by a left government. “The 36 th time will always paid more than the 35 th ” , says one.
- How majority and unions do they react?
The release of Mr. Macron is mixed reception to the Socialist Party (PS). Its first secretary, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis the relativized. For him, the Minister of Economy “refused to recant before the international press after his statement of August 2015″ at the summer school of Medef. On this occasion, Mr. Macron launched: “The left has been thought, long ago, that France could get better by working less. All this is now behind us. “
But many MPs PS are tired of ” thundering declarations “ of the Minister of Economy, in the image Yann Galut, elected in Cher. “Has always take positions that do not come from our side, we are in the process of shooting itself in the foot, he regretted Friday on Europe 1. This poses a problem of political line and (…) signal being sent to the left. “ M. Galut would like at the top of the executive there is more clarity, “so that we know where we are going” .
As for the unions, it oscillates between anger and weariness. “The issue was resolved by the Minister of Labour and there is no need to return” , reacts Véronique Descacq, deputy secretary general of the CFDT. “Emmanuel Macron said to be a supporter of radical reform, chains Jean-Claude Mailly, secretary general of FO. But it is a liberal revolution. “ The idea defended by the Minister of Economy amounts to ” work more to earn more without “, he criticizes.
Once Additionally, Mr. Macron wishes to demonstrate that he is a free man, even contradict one of his colleagues. “If I had power over the thing, I would ask everyone to shut up” , a source loose in charge of the case.
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