Wages squeezed by colossal profits

Colossal profits and struggling workers, but the Government wants to further aggravate low wages and devalue professions and careers:

• Use unemployment and unemployment benefits to lower wages;
• Use the trick of paying holiday and Christmas bonuses in twelfths to create an illusion of wage increases that they actually refuse, and at the same time to jeopardise the very existence of these bonuses.

Dismissal at the employer's will

It's already too easy to dismiss in our country, with collective dismissals almost at the employer's will, but they want to facilitate individual dismissal.

Even if it were proven in court that it was a dismissal without just cause, the employer could prevent the employee's reinstatement, thus consummating the dismissal.

Precariousness: expanded and normalised

Precariousness is a scourge, yet they still want to extend the duration and reasons for fixed-term contracts, promote subcontracting/outsourcing to destroy jobs with permanent contracts, hinder the recognition of workers on digital platforms, reduce the protection of workers considered self-employed in situations of economic dependence, promote temporary work and very short-term contracts.

Schedules with no time to live

Schedules are deeply deregulated, yet they still want the employer to be able to control the worker's time as they please – extending working hours and unpaid work, resuming individual hour banks based on a "negotiation" between the worker and the company, in practice an employer imposition, and, regarding group hour banks, reducing the possibility of worker non-acceptance.

Attacking families by mortgaging 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, limiting the right to breastfeeding, flexible hours, part-time work, intending to force parents of children under 12 to work night shifts, on holidays and weekends, and even eliminating pregnancy bereavement leave.

Rights by force below the law

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

• facilitate the expiry/termination of collective bargaining agreements;
• expand the possibility for employers to choose the collective bargaining agreement that applies to non-unionised workers;
• reduce the application of the principle of the most favourable treatment for the worker to broaden the areas that can establish standards below the rights enshrined in law, notably overtime and telework.

Strike: a weapon of the workers

They attack the right to strike to limit the workers' power, facilitate attacks on rights, notably by extending minimum service requirements to more sectors and then applying them as maximum services, practically overriding the strike.

19thcentury trade union rights

They launch a violent attack on workers' organisation rights 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.