A project of interprofessional agreement was presented, Friday, February 10, which aims to improve the participation systems for employees, but he still has to obtain the agreement of several unions.
by Bertrand Bissuel
The social partners have managed to write a text, but how much will they be approved, after rereading? Friday, February 10, employers and employees organizations made public a draft national interprofessional agreement (ANI) on “sharing value within the company”. Fruit of a negotiation of three months sequenced in eleven plenary meetings, the document must still be subject to the management authorities of the stakeholders. If the employers, which has held the pen, must affix its signature, questions remain on the side of the unions, three out of five power stations expressing reserves, or even an opposition.
The discussion between the protagonists was structured around an “orientation document” transmitted by the government. The aim was to contribute to the emergence of new ideas in favor of the remuneration of workers, after the adoption, in August 2022, of the law relating to the protection of purchasing power. Several guidelines have been traced: “Facilitate the development (…) of value -sharing systems, including employee shareholding”, but also profit -sharing and participation. The roadmap has also insisted on the need to be imaginative for companies with less than 50 people, these being relatively few to predict redistribution mechanisms in favor of their collaborators.
Exchanges were not a long, quiet river. “We left from far away,” says Luc Mathieu, national secretary of the CFDT. Invite: employers were hardly inclined to want to twist the arm of business leaders, with regard to their remuneration policy. Another discord: the unions would have liked to approach the issue of wages, which did not want to hear the opposing camp talking about. Employers’ movements have also sought to align the social package rates – a employer contribution sitting on certain remuneration elements. “It’s” no way “for the CFDT”, launched Laurent Berger, the number one of the Cédétiste central.
“Efficiency of social dialogue”
The negotiations led, Friday evening, to an Ani project of 36 articles. In particular, he intends to impose on the professional branches negotiations in order to “provide” companies with less than 50 people with an optional participation “system. Another innovation to be noted: companies of 11 to 49 people are required to establish a “legal value sharing” mechanism (profit -sharing, etc.) if they generate, for three consecutive years, a significant benefit, at least equal to 1 % of their turnover. Finally, in companies of at least 50 people, discussions must take place so as to “better take into account the exceptional results” carried out in France. This measure is, of course, echo the debate on superprofits which has been thriving for several months and which has just been relaunched with the record surpluses of totalnergies (19 billion euros in 2022).
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