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After three months bargaining, the French social partners finally reached a compromise on January 11 when they finalized the national cross-industry agreement (accord national interprofessionnel, ANI) for a "new economic and social system toward corporate competitiveness and secure employment and professional careers for employees." All three employers' organizations should ratify it. The CFDT, CFTC and CFE-CGC unions are also well-inclined and should sign within a few days. As regards the content, it deeply modifies employer-employee relations. Businesses claim it brings about greater legal safety in terms of layoff procedures and gives a legal foundation to employment support agreements. Employees get new rights: general additional healthcare cover, refillable unemployment insurance rights, introduction of lifelong individual training accounts and the presence of employees with a "deliberative vote" on the boards of French businesses with 5,000+ employees. This agreement should be turned into a bill which will be sent to the Council of Ministers on March 6 or 13. The Parliament will then do an emergency review to pass it at the end of May. (Ref. 130024)
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