The CGT will scream just to imagine the idea! Krasucki will turn in his grave ...and yet this reasoning holds since it follows the economic logic and markets ...
Will wages become the future adjustment variable of the economy?
Could employees see their remuneration go up or down depending on the activity? In any case this is the latest idea in vogue at the UIMM, the employers of metallurgy!
One of my former employers, explained every morning to his troops, the chance they had to take advantage of his premises (in fact, poorly heated in winter) and to touch recklessly, a salary (the lowest in the profession ) whereas he, knew only the torments, fluctuating business! At the end of each month, when he was distributing the pay slips, he told us: "We should pay the employees only when the company has activity"!
Of course, at the end of the positive year, with regard to a distribution, even a symbolic profit, we had to limit ourselves to a ... speech about happiness, that we would have to ... start a new exercise ... expensive for the cash of the company!
Well, the dream of this gentleman, could well become a reality, if we believe the information, revealed this morning, by Marc Landré, one of the best specialists of social topics, Figaro!
Indeed, we learn that the UIMM proposes: "(...) to temporarily adjust the hours of work and the remuneration of employees, upward or downward, depending on the economic situation"
For those who still do not know who the UIMM is, you have to explain to them that this is a "professional organization whose vocation is to represent and promote the interests of metallurgical companies of all sizes and covering many sectors of activity (...) the automotive industry, the nuclear industry, shipbuilding, aeronautics, space and rail, the manufacture of household equipment, mechanical engineering, metallurgy and metal processing, or the electrical and electronic components and equipment industries, which may be associated with the services industry (...) "- Source UIMM
In addition to being one of the largest employers in France, the UIMM was illustrated by: "(...) suspicious withdrawals of 16,5 million euros withdrawn in cash between 2000 and 2007 (...) it seems intended to "fluidify the social dialogue" and undue financial benefits, such as: life insurance contracts paid by the employers' organization, pension supplement (in cash), for the benefit of some of its members
Nevertheless, after the UIMM, suspected of having paid undeclared bonuses to employees between 2004 and 2007, was indicted for: concealed work, in 2010, Frédéric Saint-Geours, its new president, affirmed that all was back in order. Which act!
It is the same Frédéric Saint-Geours which according to Marc Landré, would have presented, Thursday, at the convention of the UIMM, a document preparatory to the "Manifesto for the industry" that it counts: "(...) to present in the autumn in the presidential
In addition to the ways to: "(...) limit the cost and impact of unemployment insurance" and "redefinition of redundancy", we must be attentive to one of the proposals, which could, if it were resume in the electoral program of the party that will win the elections of 2012, book a very bad surprise to employees!
What is it ?
The UIMM entrusted to Pierre Cahuc (co-author with Gilbert Cette and André Zylberberg of a report "Minimum wage and low income" and who recommended the government to: question the rules for indexing the minimum wage and more recently, with Francis Kramarz of a report recommending the creation of a single employment contract) the responsibility of writing It proposes to:
"(...) give more margins of negotiation to the social partners in the company, allowing via a collective agreement to" temporarily adjust the hours of work and the remuneration of employees, upward or downward, in according to the economic situation ". In short, be able to increase wages and working time when the company is facing a temporary increase in its orders ... and lower in times of lean cows. "Such adjustments helped dampen the employment impact of the 2008 recession in Germany, argues Pierre Cahuc (...)"
A note in passing: There is no question in this reasoning to see wages increase but rather to work more paid hours in peak periods. So: Exit overtime! Which is equivalent to touching the same thing by ... spreading it over the whole year!
Other consequences for employees of such a proposal?
First consequence: To the extent that the negotiation is no longer national but business by company, there would be a great disparity of agreements whose quality could be very uneven!
Second consequence, the worst! : Require employees to manage their budget according to economic fluctuations while they have absolutely no same faculty as companies to negotiate with their bank to pay their expenses and debts!
A "big idea" that we could find, in the electoral programs of the UMP and the few centrist dissidents, for 2012. It's up to you to be attentive!
Source: http://www.marianne2.fr/SlovarMarianne/ ... _a248.html
