2023-06-02 15:46:52
The agreement on the occupational accidents and diseases branch (AT-MP) of Social Security, which the social partners had reached in mid-May after ten months of negotiations, obtained the signature of more than half of the representative unions, which makes it final.
After the CFDT, which had welcomed from May 17 a “ambitious agreement”then the CFTC, the CGT indeed announced Thursday, June 1 that it ratified it.
Even though the Montreuil plant only very rarely agrees to sign nationwide agreements, it approves here ” a step “ Who “partially responds” au “lack of resources and staff” the AT-MP branch, the smallest of Social Security with a budget of 17 billion euros.
“Ensure that surpluses remain well allocated to occupational health”
But while the government will draw more than a billion euros from 2024 to finance its pension reform, via a transfer of contributions to the National Old Age Insurance Fund, unions and employers intend to manage the two billion themselves. surpluses expected this year to increase spending on prevention and « improve the repair »ie pensions paid to victims of work-related accidents and illnesses.
This is why the agreement signed by the social partners provides that the AT-MP branch, managed until now by a simple “commission” dependent on the National Health Insurance Fund, will now be managed by “a board of directorsstrictly equal” compound “of the only trade union organizations ofemployees and (…) representative employers”.
“This joint management aims to ensure that surpluses of the AT-MP branch, which the government regularly eyes, remain well allocated to occupational health”insists the CFTC.
“Retranscribing this agreement would be a sign of the government’s good faith”
Unions and employers repeatedly criticize the growing intervention of the State in the management of the various joint bodies, for example through the presence of “qualified personalities” in the boards of directors. “They are taking up more and more space in councils and systematically tip the scales in favor of the state”regrets a union official.
By imposing management “strictly equal” of the AT-MP branch, the social partners are therefore challenging the government, which had promised to “to transcribe faithfully” in the law the agreements concluded between employers’ organizations and trade unions, as it has just done for the agreement on the sharing of value, the subject of a bill recently presented to the Council of Ministers.
“Retranscribing this agreement on the AT-MP branch would be a sign of the good faith that we expect from the government, which tells us that it wants to resume social dialogue”explained the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril at the end of his meeting with the Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, Wednesday May 17 in Matignon.
Social advances
The executives’ union will officially decide on June 27 if it too signs this agreement, but its negotiator Mireille Dispot has already issued a favorable opinion internally. Force Ouvrière, for its part, “continues its discussions” and should decide ” At the beginning of next week “explained to AFP its negotiator Éric Gautron.
In addition to the overhaul of the branch’s governance, the agreement also includes a number of social advances. To reach an agreement, the employers thus accepted the reduction from 25% to 20% of the minimum rate of permanent incapacity required to have the occupational origin of a disease recognized.
It also establishes a causal link between work organization and psychosocial risks, « which places the employer in front of his responsibilities and gives social dialogue the possibility of remedying it”welcomes the CFTC.
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