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Telework: new negotiation session to find a consensus

2020-11-27T06:37:15.497Z


The social partners will try to reach an agreement from 9 a.m. on Thursday." Coup de théâtre ": a new session was scheduled Thursday, November 26, at 9 am, to try to get all the unions to sign the draft national interprofessional agreement (ANI), which the CFDT and the CFTC were ready to validate after concessions from the employers, but not the CGT, regretting its non-binding nature. FO and the CFE-CGC, which has been particularly critical so far, have not yet spoken.


"

Coup de théâtre

": a new session was scheduled Thursday, November 26, at 9 am, to try to get all the unions to sign the draft national interprofessional agreement (ANI), which the CFDT and the CFTC were ready to validate after concessions from the employers, but not the CGT, regretting its non-binding nature.

FO and the CFE-CGC, which has been particularly critical so far, have not yet spoken.

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The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m., negotiators told AFP.

It was organized because “

the will to achieve is shared.

We're going to get there

, ”commented Michel Picon, from U2P (local businesses).

Drama.

In order to respect the loyalty of the negotiations, a new meeting on Thursday, with discussion, delivery of a final text

”, for his part indicated Fabrice Angéi (CGT).

In the morning, he had expressed serious reservations about the signing of the ANI project, sent by the employers on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, with concessions, a document supposed to pose a framework for exceptional teleworking, for example during a health crisis, but also in normal times.

It is also a request from the government, which has made teleworking "

a rule

" - reaffirmed Tuesday evening by Emmanuel Macron - in companies that can to limit the spread of the virus.

Since Sunday, the project has been amended three times, at the request of the unions.

A red line remains for the CGT: as demanded from the start of negotiations on November 3 by the Medef, the text is "

neither prescriptive

", "

nor normative

".

That is to say, whatever is written in it can be bypassed.

It's a big concern,

”Fabrice Angéi recalled in the morning.

For this reason, he did not see "

how a positive opinion can be given by the CGT

", which will render an official decision by mid-December.

Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the CFDT, had relativized him.

"

From the start, we knew that it would not be binding,

" he said on Boursorama's Ecorama program, adding that discussions were continuing around an agreement which "

will not be revolutionary

".

This document could be "

useful

" by providing "

a framework in companies

".

The CFTC also sees the glass as half full, because the ANI "frames

quite a few things

".

Also believing that this document "

will not revolutionize the world of work

", Eric Courpotin thinks that "

negotiators will be able to draw inspiration from it during negotiations in a company

".

"

The employers have taken up all of our proposals, the text is more in line with our expectations,

" he added to AFP, planning to present it "

in a positive way

" next Tuesday, at a meeting internal confederal.

It is at its end that the CFTC will give its official opinion.

"Clear the employer's customs"

In the absence of agreement, "

the government will intervene by law

", warns François Hommeril, president of the CFE-CGC.

Jean Castex has already asked the social partners to "

think about a second phase of teleworking for the beginning of the year which is not 100% telework as it is today, but which is not either the return to the previous stage

”, assured Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of Medef, on BFMTV and RMC on Wednesday.

On the subject of negotiation, "

the ball is in the union's

court," he added.

The text, which AFP obtained a copy on Wednesday, makes an opening on the eligibility of teleworking positions, at the origin of a standoff between the employers and the unions.

Until now, the employers believed that this issue was solely the responsibility of the employer.

Not the unions, who want to give their opinion.

A paragraph was added, indicating that “

the definition of eligibility criteria can usefully fuel social dialogue

” and that the Social and Economic Committee (CSE) “

is consulted on the decisions of the employer

”.

On reversibility - this possibility given to the employee to return to his position if teleworking does not suit him -, while the previous text was limited to guaranteeing “

the employee's return to the company's premises

”, it is now specified that it is done "

in the employment as it results from his employment contract

".

But the wording on the costs incurred by an employee has not changed.

However, unions believe that there is no guarantee that the employer will pay for professional equipment.

While there is no longer any question of relaxing the legislation on work accidents (currently attributable to the employer), the CGT regrets a formulation which tends to “

clear the employer

”.

Source: lefigaro

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