Responding to the call of the negotiating parties and on behalf of labour, Elisabeth Borne promised on Monday February 20 to transcribe into law an agreement concluded between employee unions and employers’ unions on the “value sharing”which generalizes profit-sharing or participation schemes in companies. “We will respect the compromise reached between the social partners and we will propose the faithful and total transcription of this agreement into law”said the Prime Minister, calling the agreement a ” very rich “ and D’“historical” for SMEs.
This agreement, which extends to all companies with more than 11 employees and should be included in the bill on the ” full employment “ which should be presented in the spring, is open for signature by trade unions and employers’ organizations until Wednesday. Among the five employee unions involved in the negotiation, the CFDT and the CFTC have already announced their intention to sign it. The CFE-CGC seems more reluctant, as does the CGT.
“We are quite satisfied with the work carried out, even if it does not correspond to our initial ambitions”declared for his part Karen Gournay, confederal secretary of Force Ouvrière, to the World.
Mme Borne spoke at a convention in Paris on this theme organized by the presidential party, Renaissance. “This agreement is first and foremost proof that despite the context” the conflict between the government and the unions over the pension reform “social dialogue continues and is bearing fruit”rejoiced the head of government.
She wished that the expected proposals from Renaissance, if they are issued by “the entry into force of the national interprofessional agreement, in 2025”be “faithful to the agreement and have the approval of all the signatory parties”. The boss of MoDem deputies, Jean-Paul Mattei, author of an amendment rejected by the executive to tax more “super dividends”judged “essential to stick as much as possible” to the agreement of the social partners, while Louis Vogel (Horizons) pleaded for “greater individualization” incentive schemes.
The Medef warns against any “unraveling”
At the end of November, Renaissance had advocated the establishment of a system of “employee dividend” compulsory for all companies, as well as a “superparticipation” for companies with at least 50 employees carrying out “super dividends”.
The boss of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, expressed the wish on Sunday that the government “take back this agreement” as is on the grounds that “all unraveling” would be “a stab in the back of the social partners”. The general secretary of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, also demanded on Monday that the agreement be “respected in Parliament”Otherwise “It would be a tripping up of social democracy. There have been too many lately to start over”.