After the trade unions, Born welcomes employers’ organizations.

After last week’s trade unions, employers’ organizations are hosted in Matignon on Monday and Tuesday to talk, in particular, about the employment of older people or to defend the reduction of unemployment benefits. Dialogue with Medef, CPME and U2P should be much less confrontational than with workers’ unions who feel they have been “betrayed” by the pension reform. “We are going to talk about the method” and in particular to get the government to take over “any agreements we sign” with the unions, Medef President Geoffroy Roux de Béziers told AFP.

The government has already committed itself to a cost-sharing deal in business signed by the four trade unions, which is to be carried over into a bill presented to the Council of Ministers at the end of May.

“We have made great efforts to agree to sign this agreement with the social partners,” warns Jean-Eude du Mesnil, second member of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), adding that “it is obviously out of the question.” that we put our hands in our pockets.”

After the pension reform and the rejection by the Constitutional Council of its CDI and Medef and CPME pensioner provisions, which will be received late Monday, Elizabeth Bourne will learn about the employment of older people. .

“In addition to raising the retirement age to 64, “if we want to increase the level of economic activity in the country, we need to provide a higher level of employment for the elderly,” insists Roux de Béziers. Medef’s president wants to put the transition between work and retirement on the social agenda, “so that people can retire gradually,” as is being done in some Nordic countries.

CPME, for its part, will revisit its proposal to exempt older people from unemployment insurance premiums. “The alternative is that if the company is to separate from the senior before reaching retirement age, at that time the company must reimburse all the benefits provided,” explains Jean-Eoud from Mesnil.

Low paying professions one to two smacks

The first two employers’ organizations also intend to limit the possibility of opening a time savings account in all companies to the use of days saved immediately before retirement, and not throughout working life, as is the case in some large companies.

Medef will also defend the degressivity of unemployment benefits, while according to first CFE/CGC member François Homeril, Elisabeth Bourne will consider “allowing the social partners to come back” in regards to the measure, which went into effect in February.

In terms of wages, Roux de Béziers believes “private companies have done their job” with average per capita wages up 5.8% according to Ursaf, as opposed to the public employer’s, where growth is “roughly 2%” . But he’s willing to talk about the problem of low net pay raises between one and two smacks, while according to some studies, “60% to 70% of net pay raises are not net”, in part due to the disappearance activity bonus.

In general, “we come with a list of topics that we want to discuss, rather than with our proposals and our decisions,” points out Geoffroy Roux de Béziers, who is going to pass it on to the head of Medef.

However, he excludes discussions with unions on issues on which positions are too antagonistic, such as wage indexation. “Social dialogue works when there is grain to grind and there is the will on both sides to find a compromise,” says Medef’s president.

CPME, which also wants to address the housing crisis and the use of a personal practice account, says it is “absolutely not on the defensive” after pension reform.

The Union of Local Businesses (U2P), representing artisans and freelancers, will be hosted on Tuesday by Elizabeth Bourne.