Prepared end of March the text does not directly the SCE

This is a real mode of employment or a practical guide to the social reform that is now on the Office of Dominique de Villepin. Ironically, the report which deals with the improvement of the social dialogue is the fact of Dominique-Jean Chertier, former social Advisor of Jean-Pierre Raffarin at Matignon, who had flown successfully Act on pensions and who was called to the rescue, during the crisis of the CPE, to quietly resume the dialogue with trade unions.

Painful reading

The Prime Minister, who had the command of this report on 12 December, still hesitate on the strategy to follow. Criticized in his own camp to have short-circuited the unions ignoring the preamble to the 2003 Fillon Act which imposes on the Government to enter the social partners before legislating on the right to work, he is aware of the political scope of this report. Prepared end of March, the text does not directly the SCE. But stressing repeatedly the need to consult further upstream and allow more room for collective bargaining at the expense of the Act, its reading is necessarily painful for the host of Matignon. That could however, in the days to come, try to bounce by taking on his own account the method advocated by Dominique - Jean Chertier, shock as Nicolas Sarkozy does not waited it to propose, last week, "reserve a monopoly of the discussion to the partners in the labour law".

Twenty proposals of the report were what upset the landscape. Believing that one cannot more be satisfied with a code of good conduct, the Deputy Director of Safran, who met all the leaders Trade Union and employers except Bernard Thibault (CGT), proposes to ensure "a reserved time" at the consultation, asking the requirement for a period of three months between the announcement of a reform project and the adoption of the text by the Council of Ministers. This principle would be erected at the constitutional and specified level under an organic law (read below). This would allow the Constitutional Council to censor a Bill which, like the text on the CPE, breached such a procedure.

An agenda known to all

In the case of the reforms related to the right to work, the report goes further by advocating that the social partners to seize the subject. The time of the procedure would be then extended beyond three months to allow the negotiations to achieve. In agreement, the Government could "return to the text of the social partners or renounce his reform project".

So a true social dialogue established, the report advocates also the construction of an "agenda shared reforms, known by all the actors", which would be presented each year by the Prime Minister before the economic and social Council. This instance, and it is a flagship proposal, would be largely reformed to make its composition more representative. The Assembly would be particularly organized in three colleges (employees, employers, civil society). The multiple other instances of existing consensus (100 today) would be toilettées: Dominique-Jean Chertier refers to a "dramatic simplification of the landscape, by suppression, merge and reconciliation".

An agenda of reforms developed collaborative and transparently, instances keeled to conduct real dialogue, and especially a legal duty, controlled by the Constitutional Council, to the social partners negotiate, if they wish, the reforms of labour law: Dominique de Villepin has the upper hand. Rest to know if it will go until after a reform that would limit the power of the Executive and legislative branches and would require him to take the time to not always fruitful social dialogue. And if unions of employees and employers will be able to meet the challenge.