“The absence of dialogue with taxi artisans and support measures reflects technocratic and centralized management”

2023-12-17 09:00:04 Uhe provision of the 2024 social finance law aims to reduce the cost of healthcare transport by taxi, by lowering the price when shared patient transport is possible, via a specific reservation platform. On December 11, a national taxi strike protesting against this provision caused significant disruption to the lives of our citizens … Read more

“Despite the triumphalism displayed over the meager results obtained, reindustrializing France will not be easy”

2023-12-16 04:00:04 Lhe French government has set itself the objective of reindustrializing France, starting from a situation where the manufacturing industry no longer represents 10% of added value and 9% of total employment in France. The law of October 24 on green industry advocates the creation of an industry for the energy transition (electric batteries, … Read more

“Intelligent sequencing of institutional reforms, investment programs and social reforms does not slow down climate action”

2023-12-15 04:00:18 In view of the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, it is natural to consider the result of the 28 UN climate conferences as insufficient. However, we must not forget the progress made, notably the commitments of 101 countries which aim for net zero emissions within a few decades. Analyzes carried … Read more

“The debt must invite us to go beyond our traditional debates between left and right”

2023-12-13 19:00:27 After the parenthesis of “whatever it takes”, the debt once again becomes a subject of concern. While the overall debt, public and private, represented $226 trillion (around 209,500 billion euros) at the end of 2020, it now corresponds to more than 310,000 billion, or more than 350% of gross domestic product (GDP), an … Read more

“Unemployment insurance is too precious a budgetary resource to be eliminated”

2023-12-09 12:00:02 VWanting to reform unemployment insurance is always a difficult exercise. Cutting rights, on the other hand, turns out to be a much easier task to justify with some false evidence, and always pays off. But why, in these conditions, not follow this “logic” to the end and eliminate unemployment insurance: wouldn’t full employment … Read more

“The primacy of the Party justifies all sacrifices, including economic ones”

2023-12-05 12:52:29 Matthew Pottinger, former China advisor to the White House, recently drew up, in a column, the edifying assessment of eleven years of purges under the undivided power of President Xi Jinping: “Six members of the political bureau, 35 members of the central committee, 60 generals and probably several million local executives. » (Financial … Read more

“The sector collective agreement appears very useful when corporate social dialogue does not exist”

2023-12-01 13:00:03 IMore than a century ago, the French industrial relations system was built around sectoral collective bargaining. But for more than forty years, numerous institutional reforms have aimed to promote collective bargaining at company level: the Auroux laws of 1982 first established the annual obligation to negotiate in companies with more than 50 employees. … Read more

“If the public hospital held out, it was because employee representative bodies helped find solutions”

2023-11-29 05:00:15 La social democracy, within which the actors of civil society, particularly the social partners, play a regulatory role, alongside or alongside the State, has been built over more than a century. Violated during the first five-year term of President Emmanuel Macron, she was just as violent in the second. The place of social … Read more