The French car manufacturer PSA proposed Tuesday, May 15 to some 3,000 employees of its plant in Vesoul to increase their working time from 35 to 37:45 per week, in return for a 2.8% wage increase. The CGT denounces a decline in numbers accompanying this plan and warns that a “series of attacks on all of the group’s factories” is looming.
At the same time, the group announced an automatic workforce reduction with a target of 150 permanent jobs to be eliminated per year until 2020.
The fear of a generalization on all the factories of the group
This project, still under negotiation, only concerns the site of Vesoul. But the CGT fears that the measures are generalized to all factories of the group.
“Faithful to its policy, PSA does not waste time to implement the recent new laws that call into question the collective rights of employees such as the labor law (Macron law), which allows through a local settlement agreement to call into question the working time. “Indeed, the Macron ordinance reforming the Labor Code was intended to give more weight to the negotiation at the company level, but also more flexibility. As a matter of principle, there is a primacy of the branch agreement on the company agreement, but Emmanuel Macron wanted to change this logic by allowing company agreements to provide contrary rules, especially on working conditions.