The CGT denounced on Friday a “questioning of social rights”, a day after the presentation of a parliamentary report on simplification presented to the Government, which provides, in particular, shorter deadlines for contacting the labor court in the event of dismissal .
The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, and the Minister of the Economy, Olivia Grégoire, received on Thursday the report entitled “Giving the hours back to the French” from five parliamentarians who propose 14 measures to simplify the lives of business leaders. This includes, for example, the reduction of the deadlines for going to the labor court when the worker challenges a dismissal (2 months compared to the current 12) or the possibility of repealing sectoral agreements for companies with fewer than 50 employees.
“Once again, under the pretext of ‘simplification’, a new attack on the rights and guarantees of employees is defended above all, as if these rights prevented companies from operating!” protests the CGT in a statement. “In matters of social standards, as in matters of environmental standards, less is rarely synonymous with better,” continues the union, warning that “these proposals constitute red lines.” “The CGT calls on the government to rule them out clearly and immediately.”
“Big Bang”
“How will allowing SMEs to deviate from sectoral agreements on minimum wages or working hours, eliminating the BDES (economic and social database: editor’s note) ‘give hours back to the French’?”, asks X Marylise Léon, number one of the CFDT, the first union.
At the beginning of February, the new president of the Pension Guidance Committee and considered close to the presidential majority, economist Gilbert Cela, advocated that social dialogue have “much more margin in the evolution of salaries, minimum wages.”
Thus, speaking in favor of the continuation of the “big bang” induced by the “labor orders” in 2017, he hopes that the social partners can have “the possibility of suspending minimum wages during a transitional period when the company is going through difficulties” , he said during a meeting with the Association of Economic and Financial Journalists. The head of state, Emmanuel Macron, announced in mid-January an “Act II of labor market reform” with “tougher rules” to try to achieve full employment in 2027.
Source: BFM TV
