Paradoxically companies are struggling to find recruitsCan to make photograph but not to installChoisy urban renewal project is particularly extensiveAt this stage it is the subject of no prosecutionBercy nor the Ministry of SMEs are in sales at the reporting stage mail hotline etcAnd the Department lost Sunday energy and of the sea issuesA decision on appeal is expected tomorrowon TF1 France 2 and Canal for approximately a thirty hourAwareness is made but step implementationHis CV is remarkable! ", exclaims Mathieu Debonnet, President of the PV contractor Altus Energy. And yet, before be hired in July, as responsible for the administration of this SME sales is the Dean, Marie Dufau, economic licensee in 2008, had to fight. "I have sent unsolicited applications, I have answered all the ads, even at the minimum wage. I bought the stamps per cent. I wrote five to ten letters per day. But it took me eleven months before a position. "Marie Dufau has fifty-one years. "The course is solid." She is competent, motivated and immediately operational. It is impossible not to recruit this profile. The refusal to which it has encountered can be motivated by his age. "This is serious and it's sad," continues Mathieu Debonnet.
250 companies fined
In France, Marie Dufau situation is not unique. While the Pensions Act, enacted last week by Nicolas Sarkozy, will force employees to work longer, the employment of senior citizens remains problematic. Since 2000, the employment rate of 55-64 years had yet made progress. But the crisis has seized the mechanics. The unemployment of the gray temples is continued increase since mid-2008. Report: despite progress, the France remains the Red Lantern in Europe, with an employment rate of 55-64 years of 39 compared to 70 in Norway or Sweden.
However, estimated to the Secretariat of State for employment, the last Government device seems have borne fruit: the Act forced the 32,000 businesses of more than 50 employees to sign an agreement or plan of action for seniors before last April 1, under penalty of pay to the State of the penalties equal to 1 of their payroll. A fine that would have cost, annually, 8 million euros at Carrefour Market, SFR EUR 4 million, 200,000 to 300,000 euro to Pixmania... And that only 250 companies had to pay.
Thus, 12 million employees would be covered by one of the 80 agreements branch or the 33.900 agreements and action plans signed by companies. "Decree undeniably made progress reflection of employers," observes Sylvain Grevedon, Director at Mercuri Urval, who conducted a survey whose results will be announced today. For evidence: "Seventy percent of respondents indicate that they took new measures for seniors."Now, the issue of business is to live. "This is where the shoe pinches. "There are good intentions, but most agreements lack ambition and concrete." "These are empty shells," deplores Maurad Rabhi, the CGT.
After the investigation, their implementation on the ground remains timid: 25 of the surveyed companies have yet nothing recorded. And three quarters of employers have implemented in mid-career, relatively affluent talks get started in the short term. But they are only 20 have launched training actions. On the hiring of older workers, 26 of respondents displayed their willingness to recruit (compared to 5 last year). But only 6 reported to be executed.
Because of the restoration to computers, companies are faced with disparate realities. In search of rare skills, SGS, specialist craft of control, inspection and certification, does not hesitate to rehire part-time its retirees. For its part, the cybermarchand Pixmania, where the average age exceeds 30 years, has 25 seniors about 1,400 employees, or familiar with the Net trades older candidates: "We could recruit that person." Even among young people, we have a lot of difficult to find developers, provides Ingrid Tisserand, HRD of Pixmania. Not to mention that at any time we risk falling on the legal pitfall of positive discrimination.
And then there is a question of timing. "Many companies have suffered the economic crisis with a delay effect, which prevented them from acting", says Aline Crépin, Randstad, number two global human resources services.
"The hasty agreements."
Some employers are best, as Norman agri-food group who proposed to the members teams of night more of fifty-five years of work day. Similarly, Vinci has deployed several measures, the hiring of ergonomists to tutoring, via, inter alia, the status of "master builder", recruiting 7 of seniors, in 2009, about 6,000 CDI. Others did not go far. Like this employer which merely to a succinct on its intranet program, online ordering and provide its seniors balance of jurisdiction.
"Number of agreements have been concluded in haste", continues Maurad Rabhi. In fact, companies have had eleven months to make their copy. But "l e time political accords well with the time required to move social practices rooted in decades", said Laurent Berger, national Secretary responsible for employment to the CFDT, claiming a negotiation on the subject. Long, mechanisms such as early retirement have given employees the taste of early departures. Reflexes are tenacious. For the Pensions Act, several employees of SGS asserted their rights to retirement. "Over the debate, we heard everything and its opposite on the reform." "They became worried and we could not restrain them," says Francis Bergeron, HRD of SGS.
At the same time, the use of conventional failures extends. In companies more 50 people, employees under age 50 years represent about 14 of the followers of this device. "D e such mechanisms are counterproductive." What kinds of retirement to the map! ", observed the lawyer Jean-Marc Lavallart.
Erroneous equation
Union side, the departure of senior citizens is often seen as the employment of young people. In September, the CFE - CGC BNP Paribas thus claimed a social plan for the 2,300 employees more of sixty years eligible for a pension at full rate. The Union even sent a letter to the former Minister of labour Eric Woerth in this sense, arguing that they "do not wish to continue their activity" while "many young people" want to "enter into the world of work". Sylvain Grevedon, the equation is wrong: "There is not communicating vessels." The Denmark or Sweden, where the rate of employment of senior citizens is the highest youth unemployment rate is also low.
Stereotypes persist also in the eyes of the leaders. If the increase in employees in fifty years is seen as a source of productivity for more than 20 of the companies, 15 believe always has a negative effect. "On the employment of young people, everyone agrees that they must work." "The question is trickier on seniors," concedes Laurent Berger, the CFDT. For Edith Marseille, specialized in the conversion of the seniors, "the Act had the merit of open minds but it has not eradicated our culture of jeunisme".
Mercuri Urval study seniors exclusively on lesechos.fr/documentslesechos.fr/documents
