The secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, recognizes “Commendable” the objective of the 2017 ordinances reforming the labor code: to make social dialogue more effective by bringing it closer to companies and employees. “But the target was not reached”, notes, four years later, the boss of the first union in the private sector, drawing up a severe assessment of the implementation of one of the flagship reforms of the five-year term.
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In fact, according to the figures of a report published before Christmas taking stock of the progress of the ordinances, only 20% of companies have negotiated an agreement aimed at defining the functioning of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE), born from the merger of the works council, staff representatives and the health, safety and working conditions committee (CHSCT). “The others were satisfied with the legal minimum”, regrets Laurent Berger.
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Result: the prerogatives of CSEs are often less broad than those of the old structures. “We are brought together for the form: there is no real exchange and the management in fact already knows what they want”, says for example Malika Poumbga, union representative at Marionnaud, for whom the merger of the three old institutions is far from having had the desired effects. “We are dealing with too many things. We only scratch the surface of the subjects ”, she regrets.
A series of proposals
An in-depth study carried out by the CFDT among its elected officials shows that health and safety issues are the big losers from the reform. “The health, safety and working conditions commission (CSSCT) is much less efficient than the former CHSCT: it only has an advisory role for the CSE, whose members, who are more interested in economic or cultural subjects, do not are often not sufficiently trained on these issues and do not always follow our recommendations ”, regrets Hélène Bouix, union representative at IBM.
Hence a series of proposals that the CFDT must present to the Ministry of Labor on Monday, January 10, during a meeting between the social partners. This will include correcting Macron ordinances by giving more time and resources to staff elected officials and making CSSCT mandatory. “From 50 employees”.
To bring the authorities closer together, it also proposes to oblige the establishment of “Local representatives” and, in a period when teleworking has become widespread, to allow the use of company messaging systems to communicate with employees.
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