It was acquired yesterday late in the day

This time, the Government will have taken the time to consult widely. If he kept transmitting a draft written of his reform of the social dialogue project, the Minister delegate for employment, Gérard Larcher, met again the employers and trade unions on the subject at the beginning of week. It is true to restore the social balance of Jacques Chirac, tarnished by the CPE colors it must a broad agreement on the subject.

The reform in preparation will be the mark of this search for consensus. Considered a time for mid-October, the date of the meeting of the National Commission for collective bargaining, which must be submitted must be the reform of the social dialogue has been extended to October 27. Still should be that the employers and trade unions receive the draft Bill by the end of the week. It was acquired yesterday late in the day.

An annual appointment

The search for consensus will also led the Government, according to our information, to weaken his project to "guidance sheets" transmitted late August to the social partners. The concern of rally or at least to obtain a certain neutrality of FO, probably the most hostile to the initial project, will largely contributed. Already silent on the representativeness of trade unions, the Government has, also, stored its project to create a "Council of the social dialogue", intended to replace not less than four existing instances that will be maintained. Is there substitute under this word or the "social dialogue Conference" an annual event between the head of the Government and the social partners where the first face the latter its projects in social matters and the latter to listeraient the subjects on which they wish to work. The text will not refer to a "shared agenda", which hérissait FO and CGT, even if, in fact, a timetable should be established at a meeting between the Prime Minister, the employers and trade unions. The latter would coexist with another annual appointment of the Prime Minister referred to by Jacques Chirac, that before the economic and social Council on the social State of the nation.

Specify the time limits

The field of mandatory referral to the social partners should widely cover the Labour Code, as might be relevant according to several sources the "collective and individual rights" work, employment and training, but should not incorporate social protection, that asked in particular the CGT.

It remained to specify deadlines to the social partners to decide or not to negotiate on issues proposed by the Government and, where appropriate, to negotiate. Several solutions were mentioned yesterday among employers and trade unions: a month to decide to negotiate and then three months to achieve, renewable once, or no limit, or six dry months, or even a year. Unless the Government enacts the "emergency".

But one thing appears to be acquired: parliamentarians will keep all power to decide whether to transcribe in whole or in part the agreements encroaching on the legislative domain. At most, will MPs and Senators knowledge officially the positions of each of the social partners to inform their decision.