labor law: high-voltage encounter between El Khomri and Martinez – The World

They will try to get the country out of the worst social crisis that Hexagon has seen in recent years. A conflict that has resulted in a series of massive and violent protests, blockades and strikes in many businesses and public services.

In case the labor law made by M ^me El Khomri, particularly Article 2 of governmental text, which establishes the primacy of corporate agreements on sectoral agreements on working time.

• What to expect from the meeting Khomri El-Martinez?

M ^me El Khomri receives all unions, Ministry of Labour, but this is obviously the interview with Mr. Martinez is the most anticipated. From a symbolic point of view, this meeting allows both parties to show the eyes of the opinion that they are not restive discussion. But on the substance, the positions seem so irreconcilable that the government and the trade union federation should separate a statement of disagreement.

On the eve of the meeting, M ^me El Khomri has already warned his interlocutor – that requires a suspension of parliamentary debate – that the schedule would not budge. The changes at the margin that could make the government is not likely to change the CGT mind. But negotiators hope at least convince her to release the pressure on the streets.

• Does The account executive ban demonstrations, held by the CGT?

the president, Francois Hollande, was very clear: he plans to ban demonstrations in the streets of the capital if certain safety criteria are not respected. The Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, and the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, have meanwhile directly accused the CGT. The first denounced the ambiguous attitude of the plant; the second accused some unionists have mingled with the breakers.

These accusations are “unacceptable” and these threats are, according to the CGT, the “sign a beleaguered government “. For the union, it is “to the government [including Manuel Valls] has the primary responsibility to ensure the security and law enforcement” . The center also condemned “unreservedly the violence” against the Necker and denounced Hospital “blind acts” .

• What steps to appease the discontent without touching Article 2?

the rapporteur of the text to the national Assembly, the deputes Christophe Sirugue (Socialist Party Saône -and-Loire), is considering several ways to change the text, without necessarily changing the famous Article 2, which establishes the primacy of corporate agreements on sectoral agreements.

He would think especially Article 13, which it would propose to graft a new provision giving back the importance of the branches. These could then be solicited for an opinion, between the submission of a new draft agreement with a company and its ratification by the unions. They would then have a month to make a non-coercive opinion, but likely better inform the choice of the employees.

This proposal had been put on the table during the examination of the law by the Committee on social Affairs of the national Assembly, without success. Guest on CPAC, Wednesday, June 15, Mr. Sirugue has insisted that an amendment to Article 13 was not the only weapon with which he had thought before returning the text to the National Assembly, in July. “There is Article 13, but there may be others” , has he yet specified.

• What are the next legislative steps in the labor law?

the text is being discussed in the Senate by a majority of right. Senators Republicans (LR) want to offer a version of the text that outlines reforms that could lead a president from their party after it came to power in 2017. For the government, this is the opportunity to show, using the example of the significant changes that could make the opposition, it is actually a left text.

once voted on 28 June, the text will return to the national Assembly to party July 5. Then the government should restore the version adopted through 49-3 by making some adjustments. So either socialist MPs agree to the vote in the state or the prime minister agrees to new government responsibility. After last shuttle with the Senate, the text should be definitively adopted in mid-July.

• Who has the most to lose in this conflict?

the battle between the CGT and the government could be arbitrated by public opinion. Paradoxically, in a BVA poll for iTV and Orange, published June 5, a majority of French wanted the text to be withdrawn or renegotiated.

But the same study showed that 54% of respondents disapproved of the chase strikes and demonstrations. The images of the incidents in Paris, Tuesday, June 14, including broken windows of the Necker Hospital (15 ^th ), should not contribute to the popularity of the movement.

Government wants to give his side a firm picture, whereas a decline on this text would prove in the end five years, the inability of the left to reform. But there are fears of both sides a “deterioration” of the situation. Gold “when a fruit rots those next to rot as” , are we down to Matignon.