the bosses in turn received by Élisabeth Borne

2023-05-22 08:14:06

After the unions, Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 May, it is the turn of the employers’ organizations to be received at Matignon by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, Monday 22: the Mouvement des entreprises de France (Medef) at 5.30 p.m., followed by of the Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME) at 6:45 p.m. The small bosses of the Union of Local Businesses (U2P) will follow on Tuesday.

“The bosses will have to come out from under the radar”warns the deputy secretary general of the CFDT Marylise Léon, underlining the great discretion of the central employers during the pension crisis.

The Medef thus published only one statement of support, as soon as the reform was announced on January 10. A sign, for the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril, of the embarrassment of employers “where the reform was not unanimous”.

“The government did the dirty work”

“I didn’t feel like I was absent on the subject.defends himself, however, Dominique Carlac’h, spokesperson for Medef and candidate for the presidency of the organization. We have always supported the need for reform and I have done so whenever I have been asked about it. »

If, for an employer representative, “the government did the dirty work” by pushing through a reform supported by companies which have nevertheless avoided putting themselves too forward in the face of the challenge, the employers’ representatives nevertheless regret that the executive has neglected the social partners too much.

“Was he right? I do not believe thatunderlined in The echoes Patrick Martin, number two of the Medef and favorite candidate for the succession of Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux. I sincerely hope that circumstances will lead him to consider us better. We need a living, active and respected social democracy. »

Employer red lines

While the State would like to transform Action Logement (formerly “1% patronal”), the joint organization which manages more than one million social housing units and pilots aid for professional mobility, into a public administration, this question of joint action is clearly the only one on which unions and employers seem to agree on social matters.

Whether it is the revision of the work orders of 2017 or the conditionality of public aid to companies, the employers’ leaders indeed consider most of the files that the unions wish to open as so many “red lines” not to be crossed.

Likewise on wages, which Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux recalled at the end of April on RTL and LCI “that they are not discussed at the national level (more) at branch level and at company level..

“On the employers’ side, we must be more restrictive”

The Medef nevertheless likes to emphasize the vitality of social dialogue when it is left to the freedom of the social partners, giving the example of recent agreements on the sharing of value, the ecological transition or, very recently, on the industrial accidents-occupational diseases branch.

“We must temper this message”warns François Hommeril, however, who points out that not all of these agreements have the same scope: “The autonomous agenda, if it has the merit of existing, should not replace everything”.

“Inviting to negotiations on wages is not enough, explained Marylise Léon on Wednesday on France Info. On the employers’ side, I think we need to be more restrictive. »

“We will say no to any organization of work that would harm productivity”

At Medef, if Dominique Carlac’h fears “a third social round of counterparties” unfavorable to employers, she claims not to be “closed to nothing”. “I have no taboos discussing the four-day week, she illustrates. But we will also say no to any organization of work that amounts to less work or that harms productivity.. A position therefore closer to the CFDT than to the CGT.

“The organization (work) can of course be discussed with our partners, but by first trusting the field and without destabilizing the activity”assured his side Patrick Martin in The echoesunfavorable to the idea of ​​matching the time savings account: “That would mean more RTTs and, therefore, less work. »

In the midst of a social crisis, the campaign for the presidency of the Medef probably does not help the employers’ organization to demonstrate creativity; it will end on July 6. Patrick Martin is due to present his program on Tuesday May 23 and Dominique Carlac’h the next day.