There were already tensions between employee and employer organizations. Added to this is now the quarrel within the employers themselves. While the social partners must meet again on Tuesday March 26, as part of the negotiation “for a new pact for life at work”, the representatives of business leaders are bickering over a key theme of the discussions : the universal time savings account (CETU).
Medef and the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME) are fiercely against; the Union of Local Businesses (U2P), which defends artisans, traders and the liberal professions, is ready to conclude a compromise with the unions on this system, provided that it does not increase the ” charge “ small companies.
The purpose of the CETU is to grant more or less long break times in the careers of workers, thanks to days off saved over the years. The exact content of such a measure has not been decided at this stage, but it can, briefly, be summarized as a generalization of time savings accounts already in place – most often in large companies.
” Gaz factory “
It is the CFDT which is most willing to support the CETU, because it resembles one of its old demands around the creation of a “time bank”. This is also a campaign promise from Emmanuel Macron, which the executive has included on the negotiation menu “for a new pact for life at work” – with other files (keeping seniors in work, prevention of “professional wear and tear”, etc.). On January 30, during his general policy declaration to the National Assembly, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, expressed his desire “to move forward” on this site, thereby signifying that the commitment of the President of the Republic will be kept.
But the project greatly dissatisfies Medef and CPME, who see it as a ” Gaz factory “ source of hassle for bosses. It arouses apprehension in large companies which have time savings accounts and have, as such, provisioned money in their accounts: “They are afraid of having to transfer this cash to the operator who will manage the CETU”says Antoine Foucher, president of the consulting company Quintet.
U2P, for its part, has a different approach. It considers, as explained by its president, Michel Picon, that such a measure is likely to improve “attractiveness” small companies: these are, at present, not able to offer time savings accounts to their staff because “it’s too complex to manage”. In the eyes of Mr. Picon, CETU can be ” a good solution “meeting employee expectations, if management of the system is entrusted to an external organization – for example the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.
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