Le projet de loi El Khomri passe (en force) à l'Assemblée

[idun]

Le projet de loi El Khomri passe (en force) à l'Assemblée.

Democracy in action, the bill was simply put through without a vote.

So what next with the current battle between the CFDT, FO and the government. 

Employment rules needed changing, but will this actually help, I rather think that it has been so watered down that it cannot improve anything and has just upset an awful lot of people and will cause an awful lot of problems...... we shall see!

EDIT This is the post I spent at least half an hour on trying to sort out, using the board's edit function and look at it.

 

[mint]

That's exactly what Valls said would happen, isn't it?

[idun]

That Valls was determined to put it through is one thing, just announcing it is quite another and many deputes walked out shouting that that was not the way democracy worked and I think that they are right in this case.

This is a very calculated time of year to put this through as it is la grande vacance and many people will be away for weeks. To be seen.

[woolybanana]

Thank Bobo that it has got through; now perhaps the strikers will go away and life will return to normal.

The legislation is very necessary to start bringing some degree of flexibility into French labour relations. Up til now the Unions, some of which are militant, class warfare communists have had a stranglehold on worker management negotiations and workplace organisation, in the private sector, despite often representing only a tiny fraction of the workforce. Now, a tiny bit of that power has been removed. Bloody good thing.

The state sector remains untouched, inefficient, overprotected, old fashioned, idle and a drain on the economy, and highly unionized. The worst case is the SNCF.

[idun]

I agree that something needs doing but this is surely quite insufficient and will make little difference now it has been so watered down. Or will proper chanes all have to go through a bit at a time?

And yet even with these changes, I can see the unions making Everest out of it all and I do wonder what will happen in September.

[woolybanana]

We must remember that in addition to their objection to the legislation, the Unions were engaged in a battle for influence and strength; the CSG, the most extreme, had recently come off a series of scandals and the new secretary general was keen to prove his credentials as a hardline boyo. Hence, the extreme nature of the strikes.

The CFDT which is a modernizing union not dominated by class war warriors, was quite keen to see some sort of legislation go through, preferably after sensible negotiation. Thank Bobo someone has some sense.

Given the absolute 'niet' of the mad Left and the Unions, Valls had no choice but to force the law through. Pity, but there we are.

What I don't know is whether the new law contains the changes which the (Right controlled) senate added during their discussion of the bill. In essence, they removed the watering down which had taken place to appease the extreme Left of the party.

Whatever happens, France look set to go for a more Centrist government, unless the much hated Sarkozy wins which seems unlikely.

[NormanH]

"Whatever happens, France look set to go for a more Centrist government"

Looking from the South I would put my money on Marine LePen [:(]

And given the terrible two women candidates for the PM in the UK the same lurch to the rabid right is likely there too.

[idun]

I feel as if in France at the moment some of the unions are rabid left and then some counter balance there is Marine............ and none of it good and the people will have their say and that will be it until the next time.

We can name call the voters all we want, especially if how the voting goes does not suit but that is the process we have and the thought of an alternative fills me with dread.