Trade unions and employers are on Thursday for wage negotiations. Undergoing a labor shortage that reflects a attractiveness crisis, the employers are also pressed by the government.
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Do the bargaining in the hotel industry finally start? One month after a meeting without a real dialogue, unions and employers of the sector meet, Thursday, December 16, under the government’s scrutineer and the general public, after the employment crisis highlighted the working conditions of the sector .
Lack of labor and political pressure: Inhaded by this favorable context, the trade union organizations see there a rare opportunity to update the collective agreement of a very broken sector, where their influence is relative. But employers in the sector are little used to concessions. “Do I have a Santa Claus ‘head?” Thierry Grégoire asked the Union of the Union of Crafts and Industries of the Hospitality (UMIH), at the Congress of the Employers’ Organization, at the end of November, in Strasbourg.
Employers have discovered it on the breakdown of the hotel-restaurant and its consequences on the activity: floors of closed hotels due to lack of household staff, unique service in private cooks or servers . No less than 237,000 employees left the job during the pandemic, and 30% of the positions are not filled, according to the UMIH.
They were also able to assess the impatience of the government towards them. After pouring billions of euros on an industry forced to closing, then consented to the tax exemption and announced a communication campaign of 10 million euros to help recruit, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno the Mayor , at an entry put the professionals in front of their responsibilities: “I hope that the wage negotiations allowing a substantial increase (…) can be concluded before the end of the year 2021; in any case it is the hope that I put me In your negotiations. “The parterre has remained silent. In a video message, Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labor, brought the addition: “Your sector must respond to an issue of attractiveness. (…) I will closely follow the results of this negotiation which, I hope, will end At an ambitious compromise. Beyond the compensation, branch negotiations must take into account the quality of employment. “
The unions” count on the ministry’s eye “
In September, the minister had summoned employers to prepare the land, offering “a fairly muscular and positive point of view for us”, according to Arnaud Chemain, the CGT negotiator: “We hope to rely on the Eye of the Ministry, who gave his requirements: Employers would like them to listen to them, if they have not heard the ours. “Since then, the health and economic context has changed, the recovery is again uncertain, and if discussions Currently take place between employers and the government, it is more about a return of aid than a generous increase in wages.
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