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Olivier Dussopt will receive one-on-one the leaders of five employee unions and three employers’ organizations. STEPHANIE LECOCQ / REUTERS
During these face-to-face meetings, the executive seeks to take the temperature as the social agenda promises to be busy in the coming weeks.
Everyone has their comeback. At the time when million school children find the school benches, the union leaders have an appointment with the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt. Alternately, the five representative centers of employees (CFDT, CGT, CFTC, FO and CFE-CGC) and the three employers’ centers (MEDEF, CPME and U2P) parade rue de Grenelle. For the ministry, the goal is none other than “take stock of the back-to-school projects and prepare for the social conference», Points out the former mayor of Annonay in a post on X (ex-Twitter).
The opportunity for areconnectionand talk about “social agenda” we explain on the side of the CFDT which was the first organization received on Monday. Things accelerated on Tuesday. In order, Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC, François elin for the CPME and Patrick Martin of the MEDEF were received. The latter should not fail to warn the executive about the risks of abandoning the supply policy at a time when “the situation is turning around“, he underlined at the microphone of Franceinfo and while the announcement of the organization ofa social conference raised a lot of hope among employee representatives.
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A busy social agenda
Probably reluctant to relive a social episode as conflicting as that of pensions, the Head of State took advantage of the meeting in Saint-Denis with the party leaders to “to validate” the forthcoming organization of asocial conference” with however rather vague contours. One thing is certain, it will be a question of “careers and branches below the minimum wage”, we warned on the side of the Élysée.
But for employers, there is no question of being duped in this story. There must not be “an impact on all salary grids of the increase in the minimum wage“, underlined the number one of MEDEF, who prefers to trust social dialogue to solve the problem. A remark far from trivial, as the question of wages is emerging as the major subject that will occupy the social agenda for the start of the school year, taking over, at this level, from the question of pensions. Determined to put pressure, the inter-union announced last week a day of mobilization on October 13 on the subject. Particularly in their viewfinder, the high number of professional branches which have one or more levels below the SMIC.
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Wages are not, however, the only subject that will fill the particularly busy social agenda for this new school year. This Tuesday opens in parallel discussions between employees and employers on supplementary private pensions (Agirc-arrco), which concerns 26 million contributors and 13 million retirees. At the same time, they must agree before November 15 on the outlines of a new unemployment insurance agreement for the next three years. A flammable subject as the room for maneuver is considered “minimal», by the central trade unions.