The Prime Minister continued on Monday with employers her post-pension reform exchanges.
After the unions last week, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne received, Monday, May 22, at Matignon employers’ organizations, the Medef and the CPME. The latter informed him of the post-pension reform subjects on which they were prepared to negotiate, the employment of seniors in particular.
For the Medef, the boss of bosses Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux said to himself “ready to discuss senior employment” and provisions censored by the Constitutional Council, but not a possible revision of work orders or pensions, while the unions had reiterated their opposition to the reform of these. In general, Roux de Bézieux, who is about to hand over to the head of the Medef, has come “with a list of topics” which he wishes to discuss. He raised the possibility of discussing “gradual retirement”high salaries of senior executives “who hinder their hiring” or the degressivity of unemployment benefits.
Refusal to make public aid conditional on wage increases
On the other hand, he said that he “didn’t know what it meant” make public aid to companies conditional on wage increases, as demanded by the unions. And he claimed he wasn’t “not ready to negotiate” a revision of work orders, which for him are “red lines”. The president of Medef also asked the Prime Minister that the agreement concluded between employers and four unions on the sharing of value, which will be transposed into a bill presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, “jurisprudence” and “if there is an agreement on the employment of seniors, it is taken up entirely”.
The Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME) for its part has put back on the table its proposal to exempt seniors from the age of 57 from unemployment insurance contributions, “even if the company reimburses the unpaid contributions if it separates from this senior before retirement”said his boss, François Asselin, to AFP.
The first two employers’ organizations also intend to limit the possibility of opening a time savings account in all companies to taking the days saved just before retirement, and not throughout working life. “I felt someone listening”eager “to find the subjects likely to be negotiated between the social partners” and of “turn the page” pensions, underlined François Asselin about Elisabeth Borne.