Three months after having himself launched the debate, Nicolas Sarkozy received, today, the report of the Director General of Insee, Cotis Jean-Philippe, on "the share of value added, sharing of profits and pay in France gaps" ("Les Echos" from May 5). If the social partners in its development, the find overall "interesting", and each of the other positions have hardly changed and open multiple tracks for the discussions that must now commit between them, in accordance with the "modus operandi" desired by the head of State.
The CFDT holds and conclusions of the report "three elements" "growth of inequality between employees, variable compensation growth, growth of dividends to shareholders" "repeal the tax shield" and "to open negotiations on corporate governance". The CGT calls a more progressive taxation and a revival of the wage bargaining (read below). Force ouvrière intends "to continue to defend the restoration of the share of wages in the added value", while the GSC critical the precarisation of employment and "withdrawal of shareholders become excessive", against "the ability of self-financing of firms."

The employer side, the CGPME j. that the findings of the report again raise "the question of an extension of the base of the financing of social protection beyond the labour income". As the President of the Medef, Laurence Parisot, it yesterday, unveiled proposals to develop engagement and participation (see below) and called to focus on the sharing of wealth... between generations.
"No taboo".
Employer movement thus decided to create a working group "to consider new mechanisms which would allow the employee create an account for individual retirement savings. Agreed "in different ways", the system would have to ensure a replacement rate of 100 between pay and retirement pension, today is in sharp decline.
These reflections all-out should begin to be discussed on May 27, said Laurence Parisot, a first meeting of "deliberation" between employers and trade unions on the social agenda, in which the Medef would accept finally that is dealt with the improvement of the social dialogue in SMEs, as requested by the UPA. "There is no taboo, there is no subject which cannot be discussed" at this time, she provided.
In a role of aiguillon, UMP continues to develop its own proposals, with the "transparency" as red wire: "If one can speak of the abuse, it is because transparency revealed their existence." "This is the transparency that is that you can make more virtuous procedures," judge Frédéric Lefebvre, spokesman for the UMP, responsible of the record with Eric Besson ("Les Echos" from April 9).
Take date before the holidays
The UMP proposes already figure on payroll cards variable remuneration corresponding to the overall performance of the company and that a representative of the employees serves on the Board of the remuneration of the Board of Directors. "It is only advisory but this can create virtue", provides Frédéric Lefebvre, which indicates that the UMP "date before Parliament parte on holiday", will take if their side, the social partners do not result. For its part, François Fillon must receive, by the end of the month, another report of the Council of economic analysis on the issue.