CFDT number one, Laurent Berger, deemed the calls made by Medef and within the government to work more to compensate for the harmful effects of the containment on the economy on Sunday "unworthy" and "indecent".
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"It is not up to the workers to pay next"
"It is completely indecent. Today workers, like everyone else, are paying the cost of this crisis. It is not up to them to pay next," he said on France. 2, evoking "slogans which are launched today, old moons which return:" it will be necessary to work more "," it will be necessary sweat and tears ", etc". "Since we want to talk about the rest, we had better talk about deconfinement protocol, the way we are going to deconfinate, including in companies," he added.
For the boss of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, "sooner or later we will have to ask the question of working time, public holidays and paid vacation to accompany the economic recovery and facilitate, by working a little more, creation additional growth. " The Secretary of State for the Economy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, abounded, warning that it would be "probably working more than we have done before" to "make up" for the loss of activity. Laurent Berger spoke of "an unworthy controversy" and a "big mistake".
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Pension reform in the background
For him, "what is in question is not simply the economic question, even if it is primordial and it concerns me a lot, it is also the question of social cohesion". Asked about the possible "set aside" of the pension reform, which caused weeks of mobilization in France this winter, the secretary general of the CFDT, who was in favor, acknowledged that "after this episode, including we have not gone out, we will have many other cats to whip than to put ourselves on the face on this subject ".
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"Our social protection systems will be severely tested (...) so we will have to focus, I believe, (...) on many other problems so as not to add to them". "We will see if we come back to it in the years to come," he said. He also once again argued that the unemployment insurance reform - part of which has been in place since November 1 and another has been postponed until September - "does not apply" at all as it is today "totally shifted" while unemployment risks increasing after confinement.