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This week, Elisabeth Borne will meet the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), as well as the Medef. The question of inflation should be mentioned, as well as certain demands of the unions, such as the repeal of the reform of unemployment insurance, to which the bosses are opposed.
Elisabeth Borne will be on deck on Monday to talk about the climate. But it will not escape the social agenda either. The Prime Minister will receive the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), but also the Medef. On inflation for example, the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, believes that companies have really played the game since the average salary of private sector employees has increased in recent months.
“Very few social conflicts in companies for wages”
“Plus 5.8%, we are almost at inflation, we can do better, but at some point, we can only give what we have,” said Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux. “The margins are also compressed. We continue to negotiate. But I simply notice that there are relatively few social conflicts in companies for wages.”
Bosses are also up against the other demands of the unions, the putting under conditions of public aid to companies or the repeal of the reform of unemployment insurance which hardens the conditions of compensation. “Unemployment is at its lowest, all sectors are recruiting. I think we must leave the system as it is and not for reasons of political display, question a system which has just been modified”, continues the president from Medef.
And at the end of these consultations, the government wants to organize a multilateral meeting with all the social partners in order to move forward on the post-retirement social agenda. They could take place before the end of May.