The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger judged Sunday evening “indecent” the track sketched out this weekend by the government and the Medef which would consist in “working more” at the end of the crisis linked to the epidemic of coronavirus for recover the French economy.
The president of Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux estimated, in an interview published in our columns on Saturday, that at the end of the crisis the question "of working time, public holidays and paid holidays" should be asked for support the economic recovery.
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The same day, Secretary of State for the Economy Agnès Pannier-Runacher warned that it would be "probably working more than we have done before" and "putting in the double efforts to create collective wealth" at the time when France faces the worst economic recession since 1945.
"It's totally indecent," reacted Laurent Berger on France 2. "Today, workers like everyone else are paying the cost of this crisis. It is not up to them then to pay by slogans which are launched today, the old moons which return ”.
"Since some, including employers, want to talk about the future, we better talk about how companies will contribute tomorrow to the common good, what will be their commitments to develop a more virtuous economy ," he added, judging the "unworthy" controversy .
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The number one of the central reformist also estimated that the pension reform - suspended due to the crisis linked to the epidemic of coronavirus - was " no longer relevant" .
"After this episode, we will have many other cats to whip than to put on the face" on this subject, he said. "Our social protection system is going to be put to the test, including our unemployment insurance system, so we will have to focus at the end of this crisis on many other problems so as not to add to it." "I believe that this is no longer a topical subject, whose act, we will see if we come back to it in the years to come," he added.