An expert committee highlights the “discouragement of elected number” since the reform of collective bargaining in September 2017.
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At this point, there was no big bang in the dialogue between employers and their staff. While the September 2017 orders sought to boost a new impetus for collective bargaining, the “cultural revolution in practices” is not very “obvious”. This is one of the messages launched, Thursday, December 16, by the Committee of Experts responsible for evaluating this major reform of the five-year-old who concretizes one of the campaign slogans of Emmanuel Macron: “Liberate the work and the entrepreneurship “.
Co-chaired by Marcel Grignard, former number two of the CFDT, and by Jean-François Pilliard, former responsible for the patronat of the metallurgy, this group of reflection delivered a fourth very documented report, with the concern claimed to show themselves “Nuanced”. “We are in the middle of the gué,” write mm. Grignard and Pilliard, emphasizing the “provisional” nature of the balance sheet they are trying to draw up. It is, according to them, too early to draw conclusions about “measures whose effects are expected, for many, on the medium or long term”. In addition, the health crisis disrupted the deployment of certain devices.
But the authors of the report, quite cautious they are, do not deprive themselves “to alert” the government and the economic world. One of the concerns mentioned in the “power-up” of employees who represent their colleagues with the hierarchy. These elected officials have been deeply evolving, with the creation of social and economic committees (CSE), which come from the merger of three bodies: the works council, the staff delegates and the hygiene, security committee and working conditions.
The objective of this grouping was to give important powers to individuals sitting in the CSCs, while allowing them to have an “overall vision of issues”. The “rationalization” thus operated has resulted in a decrease in the number of elected officials, in proportions that it is not possible to “quantify”, according to the report.
Crisis of the Vocations
In this “scheduling” entirely redesigned, the mission of workers’ representatives is more difficult than before. The meetings are, of course, “less frequent” but “they are also longer and with more dense day orders”. The fact that the substitute members of the CSE can not attend the exchanges within this body also poses a problem: they are less well associated “to follow up on subjects”, which complicates “their possible preparation to future mandates”. Not ideal for succession.
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