Elisabeth Borne continues her quest to resume social dialogue. After the unions last week, the employers’ organizations are received this Monday, but also Tuesday, at Matignon, to talk in particular about employment of seniors or unemployment benefits.
The dialogue with the Medef, the CPME and the U2P should be much less confrontational than with the unions of employees who believe they have been “betrayed” after the adoption of the pension reform.
The Medef “goes there to talk about method”
“We are going there to talk about method” and to get the government to take over “any agreements that we would sign” with the unions, specifies for his part the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux. The commitment has already been made by the government for the agreement on the sharing of value in business, signed by four unions and which must be transposed into a bill presented at the end of May to the Council of Ministers.
Following the pension reform and the rejection by the Constitutional Council of its provisions on the senior CDI and the senior index, the Medef and the Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME), which will be received at the end of the day this Monday, hear about senior employment. Beyond the increase in the retirement age to 64, “if we want to increase the country’s activity rate, we must have a higher employment rate for seniors”, insists Geoffroy Roux from Bezieux.
The issue of retirement
The president of Medef also wants to put the issue of the transition between work and retirement on the social agenda “to allow people to retire gradually”. The CPME for its part will put back on the table its proposal to exempt seniors from unemployment insurance contributions.
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 as is the case. in some large companies.
The Medef will also defend the degressivity of unemployment benefits, while according to the number one of the CFE / CGC François Homeril, Elisabeth Borne would consider “letting the social partners come back” on this measure which entered into force in February.
On wages, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux believes that “private companies have done the job” with an average salary per head up 5.8% according to Urssaf, unlike the state-employer where the increase is ” around 2%”. But he is ready to talk about the problem of the low increase in net salaries between one and two Smic, while according to certain studies, “between 60% and 70% of salary increases are not net”, due in particular to the disappearance of the activity bonus.
The Union of local businesses (U2P), which represents craftsmen and liberal professions, will also be received on Tuesday by Elisabeth Borne.