The CFDT announced on Tuesday that it would give its green light to this “unpublished advance”. The minimum compensation in the sector will be 4% higher at the SMIC.
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In 2022, the hotel-restaurant employees will be able to add some butter to their spinach. At the end of a long round of negotiations, the employers’ organizations of the branch had put on the table on Thursday, December 16, a proposal for an agreement with an average increase of 16.33% on the whole of The payroll grid and a minimum remuneration greater than 5% of the SMIC from the first level. The ball was now in the trade union camp, with a deadline on January 17 to know their answer.
The CFDT, one of the main trade unions, announced on Tuesday, December 21, that it would sign the agreement, judging the result of the discussions as “an unprecedented advance in the sector”, and measuring “the Effort of the employer “Even if she had requested an increase of 25%. Without formal opposition from other unions, so it should be endorsed. “We will not be a signatory, but we will not oppose. We can not prevent employees from touching some pieces,” reacted Arnaud Chemain, CGT negotiator.
FGTA-FO side, the discussions are continuing, according to its negotiator, Nabil Azzouz: “We will have a final decision the first week of January. Our current position is for non-signature,” he says before To add that, as a personal capacity, he “does not think it is reasonable to oppose a salary grid, certainly not enough to revive the sector and respond to the problem of recruitment, but expected by employees”.
Attractiveness issue
The pressure was strong on the employers’ organizations to upgrade the wages in this branch, whose grid had not been amended since 2018. The government had placed on the front line. After having provided unwilling financial support to the entire sector to help pass the CVIV-19 crisis and its long months of administrative closure of institutions, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno the Mayor, had called his wishes an agreement before the end of the year. The Minister of Labor, Elisabeth Borne, was also mounted in the niche. Not to mention the mediatization of the issue of employment and working conditions in the hotel-restoration, which has also supported union claims.
In this tense context, a first meeting, organized on 18 November, had not established a compromise. Although Thierry Grégoire, the Union Negotiator of the Crafts and Industries of the Hospitality (UMIH), denounced “the interference of the Ministry of Labor in this negotiation”, its organization, the main sector, the NNI, which Represents the self-employed, the GNC (hotel chains) and the SNRTC (Thematic and Commercial Restoration) finally improved their proposal to win the agreement.
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