The layoff plans have been chained this year with ArcelorMittal, Auchan, Michelin … A report by a commission of inquiry of the National Assembly highlights “failures” of the public authorities in the face of the increase in job safeguard plans (PSE).
Like other recent parliamentary commissions of inquiry, the National Assembly Commission responsible for investigating the failures of the public authorities in the face of layoff plans, co -piloted by the rapporteur Benjamin Lucas (ecologist) and his president Denis Masséglia (ensemble), was able to occupy the front of the stage thanks to his mediatized auditions or minister.
After four months of work, it makes 52 recommendations and notes to regret it a “progressive decline in the capacity of the State to guide the strategic choices of large companies, including when they are massively supported by public funds”.
“His inaction has strengthened the feeling of abandonment in job basins”
“State responsibility cannot be elected. Too often, his inaction, his silence or his diluted responses have strengthened the feeling of abandonment in the employment basins, “observe the deputies.
Even if PSE represents only a “marginal share” of the breaches of employment contract, their number is experiencing “a worrying increase” affecting sectors such as industry, large distribution, ready-to-wear or the bank, argues the Commission.
Criticism on successive reforms which since 2013 have been relaxing the concept of economic reason for dismissal, the Commission points out the “deleterious effects” on employees, job basins and more generally on the social and political fabric of the territories victims of these PES.
A slew of measures recommended by the deputies
Faced with “democratic anomaly” constituted by compatibility between payment of public aid and implementation of PSE, the report calls for systematically conditioning these aids to maintain or create jobs, under penalty of restitution.
Among the measures recommended by deputies, are the restriction of the definition of economic dismissal, better supervision of alternative systems such as collective conventional ruptures, strengthening the role of the shareholder state or support for employees for example via SCOP.
The deputies also argue to strengthen the prerogatives of the staff representatives too often put before the fait accompli. In addition, the deputies evoke “the question of a temporary nationalization of strategic sites” envisaged “as a measure of last appeal, in the general interest”.
