Medef exhumes the youth minimal wage and the primary employment contract | EUROtoday

Old concepts to facilitate the recruitment of younger folks. On Wednesday January 28, Medef unveiled proposals on the employment of this class of the inhabitants throughout a gathering which occurred in its nationwide headquarters, avenue Bosquet, in Paris, with two different employers’ organizations – the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises, the Union of Local Enterprises – and the 5 principal unions (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, CGT, FO). Revealed by the AEF press company, a few of these avenues have robust similarities with controversial reform initiatives defended, two to 3 many years in the past, by right-wing governments: the primary employment contract (CPE) and the skilled integration contract (CIP) – additionally known as “smic-jeunes”.

Wednesday’s assembly follows the will of social actors to undertake an “autonomous agenda”, that’s to say a negotiation program developed on their initiative and performed with out interference from the State. At the start of June 2025, that they had already had a time for dialogue with this in thoughts and had begun to stock potential themes for collective reflection – together with youth employment. The president of Medef, Patrick Martin, could be very eager that this topic be addressed. He talks about it nearly systematically, throughout media interventions or, extra not too long ago, throughout his needs for 2026 offered on January 12 to the Economic, Social and Environmental Council.

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