Leaders of trade union and employer organisations received from Tuesday afternoon by Michel Barnier
The leaders of trade union and employer organisations will be received from Tuesday at Matignon by the new Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, to relaunch social dialogue at a time when many issues remain pending.
Marylise Léon, the general secretary of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), the leading trade union organisation, will open the ball on Tuesday early afternoon, at 2:30 p.m., according to the Prime Minister’s official agenda.
This will be followed by a meeting with the head of the Movement of French Enterprises (Medef), Patrick Martin, at 4:30 p.m. The latter said: “ready to discuss” of an increase in corporate taxes, but under conditions, in an interview with Parisian.
The Secretary General of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), Sophie Binet, who will be received “Wednesday morning”according to his entourage, plans to discuss in particular the reform of unemployment insurance, hoping that Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet will“bury permanently”. A few days before the mobilization of the 1is October, the union leader also intends to reiterate her wish to repeal the pension reform, again according to her entourage.
The president of the French Confederation of Management-General Confederation of Executives (CFE-CGC), François Hommeril, will be received on Wednesday at noon, while his counterpart from the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC), Cyril Chabanier, will go to Matignon on Thursday at 2 p.m. The president of the Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME), François Asselin, announced that he would be received on Thursday at 3:45 p.m.
