ATWhile they represent 92% of French companies and the assurance of an economy in all our territories, small businesses (TPE) cannot currently have the necessary weight to create the social framework adapted to their specificities and favorable to employment and the development of the skills of their employees. Currently, when agreements on learning, training, participation, or collective agreements are negotiated… a company employing 50 employees weighs 50 times more than a company with one employee.
A reality that raises questions, especially when very small businesses (TPE) represent 92% of businesses! It even constitutes a profound injustice that the Confederation of Crafts and Small Building Companies (Capeb) strongly denounces. This professional organization which represents them in the building industry, and which has been recognized as the leading national organization in terms of the number of member companies, all sectors of activity combined, .
The commitment to social dialogue, which is at the heart of Capeb’s trade union commitment, is seriously undermined by unbalanced rules for measuring employer representativeness. In the social field, the professional organization which has the last word when a decision is not unanimous, is not the organization which has the largest number of members but the one whose member companies employ the most employees !
A worrying deterioration in social dialogue
Consequently, small companies, although representing almost all construction companies, are at a great disadvantage compared to large companies, since they each have far fewer employees. It is thus the large companies and through them the organization which represents them, which benefit exclusively from the right of opposition, a precious sesame giving them the possibility of opposing any agreement, including those concerning the field of VSEs.
Indeed, even if the representatives of the VSEs managed to negotiate an agreement with all the employee organisations, this agreement, even if the majority signed it, could not be implemented if the large companies decided otherwise. In a few words, this amounts to saying that VSEs are not masters of their future, and that they are forced to align themselves with the orientations of companies which do not share their prerogatives neither their specificities nor their values.
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