Labour law: between business and government, war is declared – L’Express

Pierre Gattaz found a comrade. Wednesday, April 20, is François Asselin, president of the CGPME, who warned Wednesday, April 19 that his union “will not sign the agreement” on unemployment insurance if the government overtaxing CSD.

“If ever the government, through the introduction of an amendment to the Labour Law, passed the mandatory nature of the generalization of the taxation of CDD, CGPME will not sign the agreement Unédic, “said the leader of SMEs. Later in a statement titled “We do not play with the job,” the confederation refines its position and prevents it decided not to “ratify any agreement on unemployment insurance that would provide additional taxation CSD. ” One way of any return to government.

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The announcement comes the day after the ultimatum of President of MEDEF, Pierre Gattaz, who threatened to leave the negotiations on unemployment insurance if the draft Labour law was not “deeply” modified by “three weeks”.

Negotiations “held hostage”?

The case is not new. April 11 already, CGPME had said it would raise “soon in its proceedings the question of his departure” of the negotiations. “For now, it is not there,” François Asselin said Wednesday, adding that the CGPME “is absolutely not in the field of blackmail or taken hostage.”

Prime Minister Manuel Valls did not really hear it that way. He estimated Wednesday, April 20, Pierre Gattaz “tak (is) hostage negotiations on unemployment insurance.”

On the side of the Ministry of Labour, one judge “paradoxical” that the social partners decide to let the government “set himself the rules of unemployment compensation through a decree rather than by determining agreement”. The rue de Grenelle seems to believe that the Medef will remain “committed to the principle of equal representation” and and therefore does not put out his threats. Especially as tensions between the different federations of employers’ movement would not unconnected with this offensive stance Pierre Gattaz.

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The CGPME “does not bind the fate of Unédic the fate of El Khomri law,” assured François Asselin, acknowledging however that “the fate of Unédic risk of also be adjusted during the El Khomri law if the government passes this amendment. ”

“This question of CSD is the domain of the social partners,” he said, noting that “the state will be responsible for this failure should he introduced this obligation is not its jurisdiction. ”

CGPME come loose anything (either) on the arduous

The mandatory overtaxation of CSD was announced last week by Prime Minister after receiving Matignon student unions opposed to the labor law. The executive returns the manner of negotiating with unions and employers in the context of discussions on unemployment insurance.

In addition, the CGPME renewed its demand for “moratorium” on account of preventing the hardship, due to come into force on July 1, but “is largely unenforceable,” said François Asselin.

“This is a point on which we will release nothing,” he warned, saying that “the government remains fully autistic” on this subject. The choice of words.