It will be difficult to convince businessmen. Medef and the Confederation of SMEs (CPME) were inflexible on Friday in their opposition to the creation of a universal time savings account (Cetu), requested by the CFDT and the executive, during a negotiation session between the interlocutors social.
The time savings account allows those who benefit from it to store vacation or RTT days not taken during the year for later use or later monetization in the form of additional salary. It is widely used in the public sector, much less in the private sector.
The project to create a Cetu “clearly has no place” in debates on life at work focused on the employment of older people and career paths, said Medef negotiator Hubert Mongon.
“After many conversations with companies and workers, it is clear that this issue does not appear to be a priority at a time when France is questioning its growth, the employment rate and the way to converge towards full employment,” added the representative of the businessmen.
U2P less reluctant
“It is categorical, we do not want it,” added his CPME counterpart, Eric Chevée, who fears that this system will lead to “the impossibility of correctly organizing work in the company.”
The third employer organization, the Union of Local Companies (U2P, artisans and liberal professions), would on the contrary be more open to the Cetu, while the current CET mainly affects large companies, union negotiators reported.
“CET for all” non-transferable
At the origin of the project, the CFDT defended a system “for all employees, whatever their status, (including) temporary workers, fixed-term contracts, employees of small companies” that would be transferable from one company to other. , thanks to management entrusted to a “joint interprofessional body external to the company,” explained its negotiator Isabelle Mercier.
Subsequently, the employer could supplement the Cetu for five days a year, and the acquired days could be transferred or “loaned” to another employee, he explained. “We have to achieve it” because “no social innovation for employees has been produced for a long time,” insisted Isabelle Mercier.
“We are very interested in this tool,” said Anne Chatain of the CFTC, who foresees that Cetu “will be used mainly at the end of the race”, while FO calls for it to be well supervised to prevent “the employees can no longer take their days off,” according to their representative Patricia Drevon. Finally, the CFE/CGC wants an “AEC for all”, but not transferable from one company to another.
Source: BFM TV
