Emmanuel Macron gives “until the end of this year” to the social partners to “build” the future “pact of life at work”

A course set in the presence of the bosses, but without the other unions. The day after his speech, Emmanuel Macron received at the Elysée the leaders of the employers’ organizations, the Medef, the Confederation of SMEs (CPME) and the Union of local businesses (U2P), which represents craftsmen and liberal professions, Tuesday April 18. At the opening of this meeting, in which the inter-union refused to participate, he said he wanted to give the social partners “until the end of this year” For “to build” the future “work life pact”.

“The objective that we must set ourselves is that the complete agenda of the negotiations be defined in the coming weeks, the coming months in a solid way (…) and that we give you time to negotiate, I would say until the end of this year to be able to build this pact”said the Head of State.

The executive wants to “accelerate” in all areas

Since the promulgation of the pension reform law, Emmanuel Macron has repeated that he wants engage, without delay, in all-out reforms. And in his speech on Monday evening, the President of the Republic gave himself “100 days of appeasement and action” to get out of the crisis. Either a deadline set for July 14. Something to leave the bosses thinking, who have since obtained a longer-term deadline.

“Social dialogue takes time”reacted the president of the Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, suggesting that the employers would not let themselves be imposed on a timetable. “Negotiations are not just PowerPoint slides”he assured at the end of the meeting organized Tuesday noon.

For the intersyndicale, this period will allow “continue to mobilize to once again demonstrate that this reform does not pass”, warned Benoît Teste, secretary general of the FSU. United for three months against the pension reform, the unions plan to organize “an exceptional day of mobilization” for May 1st.