Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise, the creation of a universal time savings account (Cetu) allowing employees to save leave throughout their career, has a good chance of being the subject of an agreement between several unions and an employers’ organization next Tuesday. A week after the failure of negotiations on the employment of seniors, four trade union organizations and the Union of Local Businesses (U2P) – which represents artisans, traders and liberal professions – managed to reach an agreement in just a few hours .
“We have reached a draft agreement which will not move now,” Isabelle Mercier (CFDT) told the press, believing that her union had “been heard rather well”. “We have a text that is “stabilized”, added U2P negotiator Jean-Christophe Repon. “We came to have new rights for employees” and “we are satisfied with the establishment of a base” creating such rights, said Anne Chatain of the CFTC.
A meeting Tuesday to finalize the agreement
A new meeting is planned next Tuesday to finalize the agreement and complete another text, on professional retraining. The draft agreement provides for Cetu to be open to all employees, and to be mobilized without seniority conditions to help a loved one or after the arrival of a child, or after one year in the case of associative commitment. or citizen, and after three years for any other reason. It will be transferable from one company to another and account management will be carried out by the Caisse des Dépôts.
The CFE-CGC reiterated its criticism on this point: this executive union believes that this outsourcing of Cetu management will create financing problems. The organization probably won’t sign it, its negotiator said. Cetu’s project had been excluded by Medef and CPME from the broader draft agreement on life at work, which ended in failure last week. The two employers’ organizations announced on Monday that they would not come on Tuesday.
A resumption in a government bill?
For them, the negotiation is “finished” and “it is inconceivable that discussions will continue on all the subjects already covered, including professional retraining”, also on the agenda for discussions on Tuesday. The Medef negotiator on senior employment, Hubert Mongon, also announced that his organization would oppose the extension of the agreement, that is to say, it becoming applicable.
But the organizations interested in Cetu explained that their aim was for the content of the agreement to be included in a government bill.