What is in the draft agreement on intermittent – Liberation

They agreed late at night. Around 1 am Thursday, unions and entertainment sector employers have reached a draft reform of the specific intermittent unemployment insurance scheme, provided in Annexes 8 and 10 of the Convention Unédic. The text must still be formally approved by the representatives of the profession. What looks like a formality, as most organizations, the CGT, seem to approve. But the hardest is yet to come: approval of the Medef and the trade union confederations, so at interprofessional level, not only at the level of employers and unions of the show. However, the organization of Pierre Gattaz had claimed 185 million euros in savings per year to industry players, including 80 million eventually taken over by the state. Prime Minister Manuel Valls has also announced late Thursday morning, the “support fund to use” for intermittent would be “implemented” and would be funded by the state “to the tune of 90 million euros” . Anyway, no one is able to say, for now, what amount of money the draft agreement represents, and if so whether it meets the financial requirements of the Medef. “It is in the financial trajectory” , merely to tell an employee bargaining

The draft agreement.

Advanced

the draft agreement, that Libération was able to consult, includes many advanced for intermittent. The text reinstates thus, to a large extent, the existing system before 2003. To benefit from the compensation scheme, intermittent must have worked 507 hours on-year, against ten months (for artists) and ten months ( technicians) so far. The “anniversary date”, which triggers the calculation of those rights is reintroduced, replacing the “slippery” date. The “franchise”, which limited the amount of compensation based on the amount of wages received, is also reduced. Cachets, moreover, all count for twelve hours, in some cases against eight today (grouped seals). The program also: “The neutralization of compensation declines after maternity leave” and “a beginning of consideration of sick leave for long affections” welcomes the CGT.

intermittent at the Odeon Theatre in Paris , Wednesday. (Photo Boris Allin for “Liberation”)

Showdown

Side “savings”, the text provides first to end the accumulated paid leave and the compensation by Unédic. It was, so far, specificity intermittent, the show leaves were managed by a separate fund. Now, job center deduct any compensation paid leave affected that month. This alone could generate € 50 million in savings. The draft agreement also establishes a strict cap accumulated between compensation and wages, which can not exceed 3 800 euros per month. Employers, finally, are involved, with a rise in two stages, one point in their unemployment contributions (range of 8% to 8.5% in the 1 ^st July and 9% in the 1 ^st in January 2017). That of employees (4.8%) remain unchanged.

“This text is a good agreement , a judge familiar with the matter, very active in the movement. But it is above all a political agreement: do not put the state in the pot, because it does not depend on political power, and must accept the Medef. If this is not the case, we need the government to put pressure on him. “ The secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, also urged employers to approve it. “Everybody talks about dialogue. There was a social dialogue, there has been a negotiation (…) and we agree on a text. Well must validate the “, has he said on LCI. The tussle is far from over

Luc Peillon