Faced with business interruptions decided by certain companies linked to the increase in energy prices, “it will be necessary to reactivate the support systems for workers“, hammered the secretary general of the CFDT.
The secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, said on Friday that he expected nothing from the Energy Defense Council but called for reactivating the partial unemployment schemes in particular and targeting the support measures towards the most modest.
«From a Defense Council like this (I don’t expect) much“, he launched on franceinfo about the meeting gathered Friday morning around Emmanuel Macron on the energy crisis. “At some point, we will have to get out of the management of a certain number of crisis situations by defense counsel“, he also estimated.
“No generalized good proposal”
For the number one of the CFDT, “many decisions will need to be deliberated, to be concerted, to be shared» et «we will need a lot of social dialogue on these issues too». «I ask that the workers, the representatives of the companies be associated with the discussions. When we talk about energy sobriety in companies, we will have to talk about work organization, how employees come to work…“, he exposed.
For Laurent Berger, “there will be no generalized good proposal“. For instance, “maybe, in some places, we will be able to mark certain particular days of teleworking“, but not everywhere. Faced with business interruptions decided by certain companies linked to the increase in energy prices, such as Duralex, “it will be necessary to reactivate the support systems for workers, particularly in terms of partial unemployment100% supported, according to the leader of the trade union center.
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«It will take support mechanisms from the State, from Unedic which finances part of the partial unemployment», and taking into account «the entire sector, including subcontractors“, he detailed. More broadly, the number one of the CFDT considered as “a good thing» energy sobriety but insisted on «just sobriety“. On the tariff shield or the rebate on fuels, “we have to get out of generalized measures» to switch to «targeted measures” on the “poorest households“, on the “more than 12 million people in fuel poverty“who suffer”a much greater impactfrom rising energy prices, he said.