Will they quarrel over the roadmap? The social partners have just launched negotiations “on the sharing of value in companies”, whose orientation is, from the outset, matter for debate between the protagonists. The unions would like to raise the question of wages, the employers refuse to do so.
The discussions opened on November 8, on the proposal of the government. The latter, in fact, wanted to associate the organizations of employers and employees in his reflection around a campaign promise by Emmanuel Macron: “Living better from work. » The law on the protection of purchasing power, promulgated in August, was a first step. The executive intends to go further today, in a context where millions of households are struggling to make ends meet because of soaring prices for basic necessities.
In mid-September, the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, invited the social partners to negotiate, with the aim of concluding a national interprofessional agreement (ANI) with concrete measures. Offer that the interested parties accepted, while asking to have a little more time than what was initially envisaged by the power in place. The exchanges are expected to last until the end of January 2023 – an additional three months compared to the initially sketched timetable.
To frame this exercise, the services of Mr. Dussopt provided the parties involved with a “guidance document” that sets out goals. It is “facilitate the development of all value-sharing mechanisms, including employee share ownership”but also profit-sharing and participation, by having “special attention for companies with less than 50 employees”. Three “axes” of reflection are drawn, “without this list being exhaustive” : “generalize the benefit” existing mechanisms, simplify and better articulate them, “direct employee savings towards the main priorities of common interest” (“responsible and inclusive investments”actions in favor of “ecological transition”…).
“We have to take it”
At the November 8 meeting, all unions “expressed the wish to broaden the scope of negotiation by including wages”reports Karen Gournay (FO). “They cannot be ignored if we seek to address the issue of value sharing in its entirety”, emphasizes Raphaëlle Bertholon (CFE-CGC). It would be “an insult to the world of work” than ignoring such an aspect of the file, adds Boris Plazzi (CGT): “The increase in wages is one of the first concerns of employees, it must be seized. » The CFDT, through the voice of Luc Mathieu, adds other themes: inequalities between women and men from the point of view of remuneration, “fiscal transparency” – which refers in particular to the processes used by certain companies to move from one subsidiary to another the profits they create…
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