According to Laurent Berger, the Secretary General of the Central Central, this reform gives “blind trust to employers”.
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While they were seeking to improve the quality of exchanges between employees and bosses, the September 2017 Orders on the Labor Code have, very often, resulted in the opposite effect. This is the observation, very severe, which draws up the CFDT in a publicized assessment Friday, January 7th. “The target has been missed,” launched Laurent Berger, the Secretary General of the Central Centrale, at a press conference. Its appreciations are warmer than those of the Committee of Experts which also analyzed the impact of the reform, in a report released in mid-December 2021.
Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promises, the measures promulgated in September 2017 sought to strengthen “efficiency” of collective bargaining by “simplifying” the employee representation bodies. It was with this in mind that the Social and Economic Committee (CSE) was founded: it replaced the Works Council, the staff delegates and the Hygiene, Security and Conditions Committee. Work (CHSCT).
For Mr. Berger, these changes led to a “greater centralization of social dialogue” and on a “concentration” of discussion spaces. At the same time, there was a “massive disappearance of nearby representatives”, their presence being expected only in a quarter of the agreements having put in place CSEs, according to the CFDT. As many evolutions that have helped to distort the link between the base and trade unionists acting as interlocutors with the hierarchy. The orders granted “blind trust to employers” to realize the goals of the reform, “while giving them the means to escape it,” summed up Mr. Berger. In his eyes, a lot of corporate directions have been limited to the minimum, considering that the negotiation is especially a cost and a constraint.
Vision “Current of the social dialogue”
The mission of elected officials is, moreover, becoming heavier to assume, with a “extension of meetings”, according to Mr. Berger. Its remarks has been illustrated by the testimony of several cededist activists, including Malika Lumbga, a trade union delegate in the Marionnaud chain. Those who sit in the CSEs fail “no longer to master all subjects,” she explained, invoking the “lack of time”, “means” and the orders of the day became overall. The debates are more and more “superficial”, carried out in the “precipitation”, which generates “suffering” among the representatives of the employees.
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