The three main French employers’ organizations have announced that they will meet at the Élysée on Tuesday with Emmanuel Macron, who addresses the French on Monday evening after enacting the very controversial pension reform. The Medef, the Confederation of SMEs (CPME) and the Union of local businesses (U2P), which represents craftsmen and liberal professions, will be received together on Tuesday at 11 a.m., AFP learned from these organizations.
Also invited to the Élysée, all the trade union organizations of employees had rejected the invitation, after having unsuccessfully demanded from the President of the Republic a “period of decency” before enacting the pension reform, validated Friday for the essential by the Constitutional Council. The U2P clarified that it intended to plead with President Macron in favor of dialogue between social partners while during the social movement against pension reform, two national interprofessional agreements were concluded on value sharing and ecological transition. in company.
On pensions, “it is not over” because it remains in particular to deal with the question of the self-employed, we insist at the U2P. The CPME for its part hoped that after the censorship by the Constitutional Council of several provisions on the employment of seniors, “the government tasks the social partners with regard to the work of seniors so that incentive measures (for hiring, editor’s note ) be put in place,” according to a statement. Emmanuel Macron addresses the French on Monday at 8 p.m. to try to relaunch his second five-year term after the promulgation of the pension reform, in an atmosphere of persistent political and social crisis.
