Elisabeth Borne meets with employers on Monday and Tuesday to move forward on her social agenda

New round of talks for the Prime Minister with a view to to build the continuation of the quinquennium. This week, Élisabeth Borne is meeting with employers’ representatives in Matignon. Accompanied by the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, she will first receive the boss of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, this Monday at 5.30 p.m., followed by his counterpart from the CPME, François elin, at 6.45 p.m. On Tuesday, she will close these exchanges with the vice-president of the Union of local businesses (U2P), Jean-Christophe Repon, at 7 p.m.

Topics to be discussed should include:senior employment” And “the economy“, indicated Friday the boss of the big bosses, on Europe 1. “The impact of interest rates is starting to bite into corporate margins […]there are still a number of concernsfor employers, noted Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux. However, the Medef representative felt that the companies “did the job», on the question of wages, brandished by the representatives of the workers.

These bilateral interviews occur a few days after other, similar, with the five employee representative bodies. Elisabeth Borne had received, Tuesday May 16 and Wednesday May 17, the bosses of Force Ouvrière, the CFDT, the CFE-CGC, the CFTC then the CGT. Objective of these successive meetings:Developing the social agenda in order to build a new work life pact“. The majority also hoped to re-establish links with the trade unions, scalded by the sequence on the pension reform.

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CFDT warning

When presentation of its roadmapat the end of April, Élisabeth Borne indicated that she wanted to build awork life pactwith the social partners, by July 14. The results of this first round of exchanges with the unions are however mixed, the representatives of the employees remaining on their guard: the Montreuil plant thus quickly denounced a “boss monologue“, again calling on employees to mobilize on June 6 against the pension reform. “We got the ball rolling but we didn’t dance“Commented maliciously Frédéric Souillot, at the head of FO.

Same observation for Laurent Berger: “If the game is open to obtain social progress, we will play it to the fullest. But otherwise…“, warned the leader of the CFDT, in an interview with the Sunday newspaper . However, his organization will participate following the exchanges, wishing to “use the force of the social movement to obtain advances for the workers“.