The government is not alone in seeking national unity.
The employers too.
While receiving the trade unions and employers' organizations on Tuesday, the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, called for "consensus" to circumvent a possible political paralysis linked to the fragmentation of the new National Assembly.
“We cannot remain motionless for five years, the social partners must also form majorities, majorities of circumstance”, he notably estimated on RMC / BFMTV.
While no party exceeded the fateful threshold of 289 deputies during the legislative elections of June 19, "we can see that we are going to have trouble finding a majority in the National Assembly", anticipated the boss of the first employers' organization.
“It almost forces us to find consensus between employers and unions”, he added, before launching an appeal to “all the unions ready to discuss”.
Five agreements signed in 3 years by the social partners
For example, "on the personal training account (CPF), there are a number of abuses, we can find an agreement" between employers and unions, judged the boss of Medef.
In an interview with the newspaper Les Échos, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux had also glimpsed compromises with the unions on Monday on "the barriers to full employment".
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He recalled on Tuesday the agreements recently concluded by the social partners within the framework of the "autonomous social agenda", put on the table by the Medef in the spring of 2021 to try to restore color to jointism, after a first five-year Macron period where the he State has tended to cut corners on the prerogatives of the social partners.
“For three years, it has not been seen much in the media but we have signed five agreements which are making progress in the company: telework, health at work”, he listed.
Beware of "purchasing power promises"
Three employers' organizations (Medef, CPME, U2P) and four unions (CFDT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC) have signed a National Interprofessional Agreement (ANI) on joint action in recent weeks, they also indicated in a joint press release on Tuesday.
"Through this agreement, the signatory organizations collectively reaffirm their desire for a strong, regulatory social democracy, carrying social rights and proposals, in its rightful place", they underline.
Several unions and employers' organizations have expressed their concerns in recent days about a possible political deadlock in the Assembly.
Tuesday morning, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux called on parliamentarians to avoid building consensus on “new spending”.
“Today, I see a lot of promises on purchasing power and I am not sure that all of this will be tenable in the long term”, he worried, while the government must soon present a series of measures. support for purchasing power in the Council of Ministers.