Their roadmap is ready. Tuesday, July 4, the social partners made public a program of negotiations on which they managed to agree almost unanimously – the CGT being the only organization not to validate it. The discussions will open on themes selected on the initiative of employers and unions or following requests expressed by the executive. There are still unknowns, on the method and on the timetable, which could be lifted soon, during a meeting in Matignon with representatives of companies and workers.
There “social agenda proposal” unveiled on Tuesday is divided into three blocks. The first covers issues chosen by employers’ movements and workers’ confederations. Some files are new or have just been tackled – such as the governance of private social protection groups and “enhancement of trade union careers”. Other items aim to monitor the application or extend the scope of several national interprofessional agreements signed since the end of 2020: telework, provident schemes for non-executives, value sharing. Finally, one of the items on the agenda corresponds to a long-planned exercise: the “agreement” on the supplementary private pension plan Agirc-Arrco, which should be renegotiated in order to set various parameters.
The second chapter of the agenda covers issues that Emmanuel Macron had mentioned, either during the 2022 presidential campaign or during his speech on April 17: employment of seniors, “prevention of occupational wear and tear”, “accompaniment of professional retraining”creation of a universal time savings account – with the aim of arranging breathing time during the course of careers…
The CGT stands out
As for the third and last part, it contains “subjects not arbitrated which will be the subject of additional work”. A long periphrasis to modestly designate the issues on which the actors present risk not finding common ground, the positions on both sides proving to be very distant, not to say irreconcilable. These include unemployment insurance. Unions and employers must develop a new “agreement” on the conditions of compensation, the one in force expiring at the end of December. The talks promise to be difficult because the confederations of employees would like to come back to the rules which have been tightened by the government – which the employers’ movements refuse, just like the executive.
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