The July salary slip will be a bit more plump. The Clermont-Ferrand court has invalidated the postponements of salary increases initially planned in 2020 for more than 1,700 Michelin employees in France, we learned on Wednesday from concordant sources, confirming information from the World.
In this decision dated June 30, the court which had been seized in summary procedure by the union CFE-CGC rejected the postponement to 2021 of the increases planned this year. This postponement was the subject of a call for volunteers after the company failed to get unions to sign an addendum to the collective agreement of the company, we learned from CFE-CGC Michelin.
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Michelin has announced its decision to appeal. The company considered that its arguments were legally founded, but also indicated that it would apply the increases without going back on them. After the blow dealt to the company by the health crisis, Michelin had submitted to the unions an addendum to the collective agreement proposing to postpone for one year the increases negotiated in France, excluding the lowest wages, in a concern for "social cohesion with the other countries of the group" where this freeze was applied.
Only the CFDT signed this addendum, which was accompanied by a "return to good fortune" clause, leading management to launch a call for volunteers on April 20 in a note addressed to the employees concerned. According to the CFE-CGC, 11% of the workforce, or 1,770 employees, responded favorably.
The court found this call for volunteers illegal and found that an employee cannot individually renounce a collective agreement which is more favorable to him, says the union. The employees concerned will therefore be applied to the September pay increases they had agreed to postpone to 2021, with retroactive effect to May 1, said the management of Michelin.
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