Three of the five French organizations (CFDT, CFE-CGC and CFTC) agreed to sign the agreement “towards a policy improving the quality of life at work and professional equality,” reached on June 19 but finalized on July 2, thus validating the agreement after complicated negotiations. The text notably provides for the creation of a single negotiation on the quality of life at work and new links between obligations in terms of professional equality and equal pay. (Ref. 130467)
The social partners chose a broad definition of the quality of life at work as it goes beyond working conditions, functions and work-life balance and encompasses social dialogue, visibility on the company’s strategic decisions and career management. This voluntarily global approach can partly explain why the negotiations took so long (opened in September 2012 and finalized on July 2) and why it was so hard to reach an agreement that doesn’t look very ambitious or like it is going to change muc
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