The Chertier report is especially popular Rue de Grenelle

After the crisis of the CPE, the proposals of the former social Advisor to Jean-Pierre Raffarin at Matignon, Dominique - Jean Chertier, to improve social dialogue, fall at the right moment. The report was officially submitted to Dominique de Villepin, Friday. Considering the recommendations of the text "interesting and important", Matignon stressed that "the social dialogue should be organised according to a simpler and more readable", promising on the subject a "broad dialogue in-depth of the social partners and the President of the economic and social Council".

The Chertier report is especially popular Rue de Grenelle. In 2002, the Minister delegate for employment, Gérard Larcher, then in charge of the social dialogue for the UMP before the presidential election, had proposed to allow the social partners to "participate in the development of the social norm": "it seems quite possible, he wrote, that Parliament agrees to suspend at the request of the social partners, for a period up to nine months for example.any legislative or regulatory initiative in the social field to enable them to reach an agreement through negotiation. "And as advocated by Dominique - Jean Chertier, Gérard Larcher wished that the Government has then choice to submit the text of this agreement to Parliament"in its entirety, to respect the balance". On Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister of social cohesion, it also supports the philosophy of the report, and especially the advocating of the vote of an organic law that would guarantee respect of the negotiation time.

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The reactions of the social partners are contrasting. CFDT and CFTC are globally satisfied, while until now the acts of Matignon. "This is positive because it goes in the direction of European social regulations, says Annie Thomas, Confederal Secretary of the CFDT." In the Union, the social partners must be entered before any project, and this rule already allowed them to legislate themselves on Telework and gender for example. "The CFDT believes however that should not set a deadline for negotiations. Jacques Voisin, Chairman of the CFTC approves "tracks interesting after the counterexample of the CNE, where there has been pretending to consult, and to PBS, where it has not cooperative at all." We are takers of an organic law. "Trade unions of employees put a flat: it seems difficult to prevent members of Parliament to amend a text negotiated by the social partners. Jean-Claude Mailly, Force ouvrière General Secretary, said, subject to a review of the report, overall fairly critical: "the principle of compulsory prior consultation is beneficial." But I'm suspicious of too much formalism and I am sceptical about the notion of shared agenda, as well as on the proposed reform of the economic and social Council, in which trade unions must retain their freedom of speech. The logic that would like to trade unions of the co-

legislators is worrisome. Above all, it lacks guarantees on the articulation between the Act and the contract, which would result in the attachment to the Republican model.

A debate again likely to oppose a part of the trade unions the employers organisations. At the General Assembly of the Medef, in January, Laurence Parisot was indeed denounced a "problem of border between the Act and the contract", regretting that "if we conclude an agreement with the unions, nothing to compel Parliament to comply with the terms or even the balance." The report by Dominique-Jean Chertier in any case is welcomed by the Medef and CGPME. And by the UPA, where Pierre Burban said "very friendly with recommendations that go in the direction of the common position adopted in July 2001 by the social partners on the ways and means of deepening of collective bargaining."