Here is a boss who is not afraid to put many employees on the back. Morning guest Hello from TF1 on Wednesday, the president of the Confederation of small and medium-sized companies (CPME) of île-de-France, Bernard Cohen-Hadad, was “extremely favorable” to the abolition of two vacations planned by the Government.
This entrepreneur, author of “The Future belongs to the SMEs”, demands “economic patriotism”, while the abolition of the “holiday character” on Easter Monday and May 8, mentioned in the framework of the framing of Prime Minister François Bayrou was directed last weekend to the social partners, awakens a deep anger next to the synsions. “If you help our society, we must go there,” said the president of the île-de-France CPME.
May “Gruyère”
Bernard Cohen-Hadad assumed the argument of the Head of Government, pointing out in particular a month of “Gruyère” of May every year. “With very large holes, bridges, bridges, some entrepreneurs wanted to work on May 1, it was possible for them, not for their collaborators, you already know the bakers’s revolt,” he insisted.
The businessman then invites “rethinking the number of working hours during the year”, considering that there is “a new relationship to work.” “This is a social problem, and the economy cannot be frozen in front of international competition,” he argued, even if he recognizes that the suppression of two vacations “is not unanimous at all.”
If the president of the CPME île-de-France is also favorable to the abolition of two vacations, perhaps it is because the government reaches companies: “Prime Minister and the Minister of the Economy insisted on not weighing the positions in companies, it is a problem,” he recalled.
4.2 billion euros in expected savings of 2026
In its framework, consulted by BFM Business, François Bayrou defends the abolition of two vacations “to increase the production of France and begin to recover control of our destination.”
This is where the positions diverge slightly with the CPME. Because the president of the Confederation at the national level, Amir Reza-Tofighti, “proposed to suppress the holidays, but donate them to the financing of pension,” Bernard Cohen-Hadad recalled Wednesday. In any case, the Government expects to generate no less than 4.2 billion euros in savings of 2026 eliminating the holidays on Easter Monday and May 8.
Source: BFM TV
