The unions had unanimously rejected last week the plan of the PSA management to prematurely relaunch, even before the end of the containment, the production of their factories in France. According to our information, an agreement was finally able to be drawn up, then presented and put to the vote on Tuesday.
The CFE-CGC is ready. The CFDT, CFTC and FO should logically follow. Only the CGT risks opposing it. This will not, however, call into question the validity of the agreement since the group's first three unions alone represent more than 50% of all employees.
“Be careful, says Anh-Quan Nguyen, central delegate at CFE-CGC, this is not a blank check for the restart of factories, but just a prerequisite for recovery. And this will inevitably be conditioned by the decline of the epidemic. As well as at the end of containment, at the national level. "
As at Renault, whose unions (with the exception of the CGT) approved a similar agreement on April 1, this agreement is divided into three parts. The first sets the health framework in which production can eventually be restarted, while the country is facing the coronavirus epidemic. The second confirms the creation of a solidarity fund which will make it possible to supplement 100% the remuneration of employees placed on partial unemployment between March 17 to April 30, whether workers, technicians and managers.
The agreement specifies the arrangements for taking future vacations
Concretely, this full maintenance will be done for 1 month of partial activity by the payment in a common pot of 2 days of leave for executives, of one day for the other categories and of a contribution of the company to supplement.
Finally, the agreement specifies the mechanism for taking future vacations, "aiming to be better said than the government orders that have already been taken on the subject," said a source familiar with the matter. For example, for Easter holiday week, the notice period will be 5 working days without confinement, instead of 1 day as provided for by the government ordinance of March 25, 2020.
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"On the other hand, faced with the uncertainty about the resumption of activities due to the crisis, as well as its economic impacts on car orders," picks up the same source, "it is planned to give back the hand to each establishment, as well as to organizations unions, to study the best plans for future vacations. To start with those of summer. "