The social plan announced at the Mutualité would mark the rupture of mutualist values ​​for employees

2023-06-20 13:00:09

Negotiations initiated with the management of the National Federation of French Mutual Funds (FNMF) have not ceased since the announcement, on February 14, of a plan to safeguard employment (PSE), which provides for the elimination of a quarter of the workforce: 85 positions including 62 redundancies out of 240 employees. “A phase of social dialogue is opening with the trade unions”, declared Séverine Salgado, the director general of the FNMF.

But, after the amazement and then the anger expressed by the employees, apart from a method agreement signed on April 26 on the timetable for the procedure and the negotiations, the blockage remains complete on the merits. Signature by trade unions “does not mark, on their part, any acceptance of the project presented”, specifies the method agreement. “We are still campaigning for the withdrawal of the PES”, entrusted to Monde a staff representative.

Unions and elected members of the social and economic committee (CSE), who were to present the conclusions of the accountancy report at a press conference on Tuesday June 20, dispute the economic basis of the PES, as well as its motivation, ” to sort out [l]a economic situation with a view to safeguarding [l]“competitiveness” of the FNMF. Management points out that “the market shares of mutual health insurance are continuously deteriorating”.

A series of governance decisions

For twenty years, contributions to health contracts have gradually passed into the hands of insurance companies, and the number of health mutuals has collapsed (there are only 300 left), reducing the federation’s income by the same amount: 85% of the FNMF’s receipts are based on contributions from member mutuals. The projections for 2025 qualified as « prudent » by management announce a net result in deficit of 11 million euros, which the PSE would reduce to 1.1 million.

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The accounting expertise of the firm Ethix, appointed by the CSE, does not describe the same reality. After recalling that “the FNMF carries out an activity which does not fall within the competitive field”, the report denounces a scenario built on “pessimistic assumptions”, which would not take into account the revaluations of mutual insurance rates linked to inflation (80% of the base for the federal contribution is made up of the turnover of member mutual insurance companies), while increasing the operating costs and the payroll of the FNMF from the impact of this same inflation. Inflation taken into account (or not), depending on whether revenue or expenditure is assessed.

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