No pay deal on offer from energy sector employers

France

The four energy sector federations made a joint statement on 28 May setting out their main demands and attacking employers in the energy sector (IEG) for failing to re-open negotiations on the 2009 pay increase and for pulling out of talks about a new job classification system that started in 2007. The CGT, FO, CFDT and CFTC want to negotiate an overall salary increase for all workers in the sector but the employers have implemented an increase of only 0.3% this year. The unions are critical of the employers’ narrow focus on inflation and argue that a much more substantial increase should be paid that takes account of profits made in the industry. The unions also want to see a new job classification system so that salaries reflect the changing nature of jobs and workloads in the sector since the system was first introduced in 1982.
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