AGAINST THE LABOUR PACKAGE

What is at stake

Salaries crushed for colossal profits

Colossal profits and workers in difficulty, but the Government wants to further reduce low wages and devalue professions and careers:

• use unemployment and unemployment benefits to lower wages;

• introduce the trick of paying holiday and Christmas bonuses in twelfths to create the illusion of a wage increase, which they in fact refuse, while at the same time call into question the very existence of these bonuses.

Dismissal at the employer’s discretion

It is already too easy to dismiss employees in our country, with collective redundancies almost at the employer's discretion, but they want to make individual dismissal even easier.

• Even if proven in court that the dismissal was unfair, the employer could prevent the worker from being reinstated, thereby finalising the dismissal.

Precariousness: extended and normalised

Precariousness is a scourge, but they still want to extend the duration and reasons for fixed-term contracts, encourage subcontracting/outsourcing to destroy permanent jobs, make it difficult to recognise workers on digital platforms, reduce the protection of workers considered self-employed but in a situation of economic dependence, and promote temporary work and very short-term contracts.

Work schedules with no time to live

Work schedules are highly deregulated, but they still want the boss to be able to use and dispose of the worker's time at will, extend working hours and unpaid work, resume the individual hour bank, on the basis of a “negotiation” between the worker and the company, in practice an imposition by the employer, and, as for the group hour bank, reduce the possibility of non-acceptance by the worker.

Attack families, mortgage the country

When the country needs to increase the birth rate and improve the living conditions of parents and children, the Government attacks families, particularly babies and mothers, by limiting the right to breastfeed, flexible working hours, part-time work, seeking to force parents of children under 12 to work at night, on public holidays and weekends, and even eliminate pregnancy loss leave.

Forced rights bellow the law

It is urgent to revoke the expiry and reinstatement of the principle of more favourable treatment for workers, but they want to take away even more rights from workers:

• facilitate the expiry/termination of collective labour agreements;

• extend the possibility for employers to choose the collective agreement that applies to non-unionised workers;

• reduce the application of the principle of more favourable treatment for workers in order to extend the areas in which standards below those enshrined in law can be set, namely overtime and teleworking.

Strike: workers' weapon

They attack the right to strike in order to limit the power of workers and facilitate the attack on rights, namely by covering more sectors with minimum services and applying them as maximum services, practically overriding the strike.

19th. century trade union rights

They are launching a violent attack on workers' rights to organise and on trade union freedom, notably by revoking the rights of assembly, intervention and trade union information in companies where there are no known unionised workers, making their exercise dependent on the will of the employers.