Paris calls a social dialogue conference to think about how to end the crisis
Prime Minister Jean Castex, after a council of ministers at the Elysée Palace, March 10, 2021. AFP - LUDOVIC MARIN
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French Prime Minister Jean Castex is calling a social dialogue conference in Matignon on Monday March 15.
The government wants to prepare for the gradual lifting of health restrictions against Covid-19 and measures to support the economy to end the crisis.
Because it could prove to be delicate, while the health context remains uncertain.
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The Prime Minister is expected to interact with the social partners by videoconference.
The previous social conference was marked in October
by the need to find answers to the crisis, a few days before the second confinement.
This time, it is a question of projecting towards the end
of the crisis
.
How to work with the restrictions lifted?
How to phase out
support measures
?
For the head of the CFDT Laurent Berger, we must in any case avoid a "
sudden
"
stop
of aid to households and businesses.
Same music from Simon Duteil, co-delegate general Solidaires, for whom these measures should not stop abruptly and who also calls for "
real and strong emergency measures
".
The Solidaires union "expects real emergency measures", according to Simon Duteil, its co-delegate general
Agnieszka Kumor
The government should also make known its decision on exceptional aid for the hiring of young people and the
recruitment of work-study students
.
These were to be extended until the end of May.
Another subject: second-line workers, particularly exposed to the pandemic in commerce, cleaning or road transport.
Their commitment left a bitter taste to the employees.
In return, the unions demand bonuses exempt from social contributions, a measure to which the employers remain fiercely opposed.
If the unions do not welcome the payment of an exceptional bonus proposed by the government, "
this will not resolve the issue of the valuation of employment, the level of wages and remuneration
" of these workers. precarious workers, believes François Hommeril, president of the CFE-CGC.
According to the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril, the bonuses to second-line workers "will not solve the issue" of these precarious workers
Agnieszka Kumor
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