Do you remember ? As wehad calculated, what is going on in the background is the desire to confine CDIs to specific spots, ie a limitation in time for the latter.
And therefore, de facto, the cancellation of open-ended contracts...
At least that's what I feel, no factual data on it yet...
They are now seizing the job security bill, which aims to introduce more flexibility for companies, against new rights for employees. A drop in salary against job retention on the one hand and complementary health insurance for all on the other.
Originally, an agreement between employers and three unions, signed in January 2012. The government wants this agreement to be respected to the letter but parliamentarians do not hear it that way, especially on the left.
All the deal, nothing but the deal. It is François Hollande who says so. The president does not want parliamentarians to unravel what the social partners have long negotiated and warns his own troops: "The commitment that I made to the social partners is that it would be the whole agreement, nothing but the agreement. Any corrections must be approved by the signatories".
And if François Hollande puts so much heart into it, it is because the agreement on job security is one of the main tools supposed to enable him to reverse the unemployment curve by the end of the year. . This agreement is also the putting into practice of the social democracy that he calls for, and even wishes to enshrine in the Constitution.
Two points on which the president disagrees with part of his majority
On the left as on the right, and even more than on the right, the legislators are rebelling. Parliament is not a recording chamber, there is no question of limiting itself to the copy-paste of a text signed by only part of the unions.
The more one is to the left, the more one judges that, on the merits, the agreement is unbalanced. "We are not demolishers of the labor code“, proclaims André Chassaigne, patron of the left front deputies.
"The deputies are not the scribes of the Medef. It is a very bad text. We are going to fight it step by step, dissect it, unravel it, disarticulate it. We would like to demonstrate that the government is going into a wall."
The Left Front is about to table 4.500 amendments. There will also be a few dozen from the socialist ranks and there too, we are worried about the wrong signal sent to the electorate on the left.
"When you see the political situation in which we find ourselves, bad elections, extremely alarming polls, well, there is a simple reality. When the social base that elected you has the feeling that you do not defend your commitments, things go wrong“, explains PS senator from Paris, Marie-Noëlle Lienemann.
The left of the left headwind
The left of the protesting PS. This is reminiscent of another stormy episode in parliamentary life under the Hollande quinquennium. It was last fall, during the vote on the European treaty, prepared by Nicolas Sarkozy, and finally signed by François Hollande, with the addition of a growth section. At the time it had swayed in the majority but the spokesperson for the socialist group in the Assembly Thierry Mandon wants to believe that things have changed: "There will be less opposition to this agreement than there was at the start of the quinquennium on the treaty. I think that the majority matured, they know that there are difficult measures to take, that there are no other solutions and that we must hold on."
A shared optimism at the Ministry of Labor
Minister Michel Sapin calls for finding "the right setting" on what can be "moved" in the text. His entourage is serene, "there will be no blood on april 2". The Minister threw all his political weight into the battle. The Communists are seven, it's difficult to wage trench warfare with seven.
The difficulties will not come only from the left
The UMP and the centrists of the UDI had hinted that they would vote for this text. From now on, nothing is less certain:These are typically the subjects on which we had shown a willingness to work in a constructive and positive manner. But I am very worried to see that there are many inclinations in the current majority to reconsider this agreement, in terms which would come to considerably rigidify the conditions of flexibility and which would then make the nature of this agreement obsolete. In this context, the position, which is mine, is to wait“, explains the boss of the UMP, Jean-François Copé.
The right intends to monetize its support at a high price and take the opportunity to reopen the debate on the 35 hours. Job security, a minefield.
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