After four months of consultation, the negotiations finally aborted. Medef is pointed out by the social partners. “We have a problem with MEDEF, he never wants to pay anything,” denounces the president of the French Confederation of Supervision – General Confederation of Managers.
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The conclave on pensions which ended without agreement between the social partners, the reform of 2023 therefore remaining in force. At the end of several months of discussions, François Manril, strongly criticized the attitude of the Medef. “The attitude of the MEDEF is very condemnable”said the president of the CFE-CGC on Tuesday, June 24, on Tuesday, June 24 on Franceinfo, denouncing the refusal of employers to participate in a fair sharing of efforts.
“The Medef does not like when it does not hold the pen. However, here, we can see the limestone they made when the text is released, it was not they who had written it”he continued. The union leader insisted on the lack of financial commitment of the employers: “We have a problem with the MEDEF, he never wants to pay anything. The Medef says: ‘Share efforts between you, the employees and the retirees. But we, anyway, the Medef, we will not spend a single penny to help the outcome of the discussion'”.
François Hommeril also pointed out the use of public aid by large companies: “It is starting to be painful to deal with people who do not want to lead to any negotiations and who, in any case, want only one thing: to consume public money, to transform it into dividends and assets, and never make any effort with the social.”
“There is a time when Medef will have to understand that its interest in negotiation is not to always serve the interests of capital, but to serve the social sphere.”
François Manril, President of the CFE-CGCin franceinfo
The president of the CFE-CGC called for a change of posture of the MEDEF. “A country, an organization, a company does not work if there is not a sharing of efforts, Pointe François Hommeril. Being in the always more, it ends up tiring, it ends up despairing people. When we pretend to be a negotiator, when we pretend to be representative, you also have to know how to make concessions when it is necessary for points of view to get closer “.
After the announcement of “Failure” From the “conclave” by the social partners, Prime Minister François Bayrou said that he was going to receive them in the morning to try to find “A way”. François Hommeril said they remain available: “I have no info at this stage, but if obviously the Prime Minister invites me to meet him, during the day when the coming days, I will do it. There is no reason that I dry this appointment”.
