“Not the right way”: the CFDT rejects the less protective youth permanent contract proposed by Medef

The general secretary of the CFDT Marylise Léon rejected this Saturday the Medef proposal aimed at creating a less protective permanent contract for young people far from employment, announcing that her organization would present alternatives “very soon”.

“The proposals that have been made are proposals that belong to Medef” and “I do not want to discuss on that basis,” declared the number one of the CFDT on France Inter.

This proposal for a permanent contract “which can be terminated without reason during the first years” was among the documents distributed to the other number one employers’ and trade union organizations meeting on January 28 at Medef headquarters.

Since then, the CGT has described this proposal as a “declaration of war against young people and employees”, and the Minister of Labor Jean-Pierre Farandou assured in early February that it “was not taken up” by the government.

“Addressing the youngest”

“I think this is not at all the right way to start a discussion,” added Marylise Léon, seeing “a collective responsibility to talk about young people” and “to address the youngest who have great difficulty entering employment”. “The CFDT will make other proposals very soon,” she said.

In view of the municipal elections, the Power to Live Pact, a civil society alliance born in 2019, of which the CFDT is a part, has formulated several proposals intended to increase “city powers” on everyday issues, such as housing, water, energy and even early childhood care.

In this pact, “we defend the idea of ​​having a right to employment” by supporting, for example, “territory type projects for zero long-term unemployed people which are associations which create businesses with the aim of employment”, quotes Marylise Léon.

The objective is to create “a niche of activity”, “jobs nearby which are useful, which are in a non-competitive area”, she clarified.