Social negotiation of the last five-year promises to be one of the most difficult. Unions and management have started on Friday the MEDEF, their discussion of "competitive employment agreements" intends introduce the president. Nicolas Sarkozy gave in late January, two months to agree on these devices should allow, after majority agreement concluded in the company to adjust temporarily the working time and compensation of employees to cope with the hollow of activity. Specifically, employees would agree to reduce their wages and working hours while their employers would commit to maintaining employment for a specified time and so do not dismiss. The agreement will require all employees, without the possibility of individual refusal.

All participants had not Friday the same objectives. One thing in common: the desire to prolong the debate. "I understood that discussions would take some time," admitted Patrick Bernasconi, the leader of the employers' delegation. "We have to hold until April 22, confessed to a trade unionist. Nicolas Sarkozy is elected and he will impose his bill, or it's Francois Hollande and it will not respond to our exchanges. We should just save time. "A strategy that seems part: three bargaining sessions have been scheduled Friday, the last … April 13.

Both sides of the trade union side

In addition, two camps are emerging trade union side. First there are those who are willing to discuss, but not under the pressure of political events. "If the goal is to maintain jobs temporarily in companies, we are open to negotiate with employers, assumes Thouvenel Joseph, vice president of the CFTC Payday advance. But we must first there was agreement on what constitutes the concept of competitiveness and employment it will take a few weeks. "Same story with the CFDT, which is, as always," ready to engage " but from the moment the debate is extended to matters of "corporate governance, sharing of wealth and investment in research and development." A program that far exceeds the specifications set by Nicolas Sarkozy

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And then there came no will power to sign, but not to be accused of refusing social dialogue. CGT head, which speaks of "coup" government to impose greater flexibility in business and reduce workers' rights. "I forgot my pen to sign the text employers", ironically also Maurad Rahbi, one of its negotiators at the entrance to the meeting, before continuing: "We have seen that an agreement competitiveness Employment provided in Conti Clairoix. Employees agreed to wage cuts and strong the company closed three years later. "

FO is on the same wavelength as the competitive employment agreements are for it as "blackmail to employment." For Stéphane Lardy, his "Mr. Employment "negotiations should address the issue of" joint management "sine qua non for the success of such devices across the Rhine. "If you want to import the German model, it must be taken in its totality," he causes, convinced that employers in France there are "not ready".

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