Elisabeth Borne will present her roadmap for the next 100 days on Wednesday April 26, as requested by Emmanuel Macron. One of the Prime Minister’s objectives is to turn the page on pensions and bring the unions back to the negotiating table. Some are ready for it.
The unions are a bit stuck. The pension reform and the government’s forced passage with 49.3 remain in their throats. And they do not want to respond to the agenda dictated by the executive. The resumption of dialogue with the inter-union is one of the missions entrusted to Élisabeth Borne by Emmanuel Macron as part of the “100 days” to relaunch the five-year term. The Head of State wants to receive the organizations soon, after May 1 and the famous “decency period” mentioned by the CFDT.
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While the Prime Minister must unveil her roadmap, Wednesday, April 26, after the Council of Ministers, the CFDT, like the CFTC, say that they will end up discussing. In particular measures rejected by the Constitutional Council, such as the index and the CDI seniors, specifies Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC: “Not returning, after a while, to the negotiating table means that we are going to leave a law in which there is no longer a line on hardship, in which there is no longer any a line on the employment of seniors and that is not possible”.
“If we do not work on these subjects, it is the employees who will be the losers.”
Cyril Chabanier, President of the CFTCat franceinfo
Subjects that will not be in the Labor Law, because “we must allow time to discuss with the social partners”, slips a government source. On the other hand, by the summer, the executive intends to open the dialogue, in particular on the proposals resulting from the assizes of the work. Like the possibility of setting up the four-day week or of generalizing the time savings account to allow workers the possibility of later using their days of leave not taken. End-of-career arrangements and wear and tear at work are also topics mentioned by the Minister of Labour. Lines of thought that could serve as a basis for the future labor law.
The rise in wages, a question “dodged”
Overall, the unions are pleased that these issues are put on the table. But a big question is missing according to them, that of the increase in salaries, underlines Bruno Lévéder, national secretary at the FSU, in charge of the civil service: “Is there, yes or no, for example, a desire to increase salaries in the public service by a general measure? This question is constantly avoided. It is not possible for us that important subjects are diverted to finally do something else”.
Still very scalded by the pension reform, the trade unions are suspicious. They will only go to talks if they are guaranteed to be able to make real changes to the measures presented by the government.