Question 15971 — commerce and crafts

Summary

Mr. Benjamin Saint-Huile draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for businesses, tourism and consumption, to the worrying situation in which the Chambers of Trades and Crafts (CMA) find themselves, following in particular questions from representatives of the CMAs of the Hauts-de-France region. It appears that the CMAs are experiencing a major social crisis for several months, even though these public administrative establishments play a central role in the territorial network in the fields of crafts, apprenticeship training or the local economy. The year 2023 which has just ended was difficult for the CMA network, following announcements of reductions in resources imposed by the Government. The financial balance is destabilized, after the decision of France Compétences in July 2023 relating to the costs of NPECs and the drop in revenue through the tax for chamber of trades fees. The concern and the feeling of injustice are great among the employees of these networks, who work to train more than 110,000 apprentices each year, who support nearly 2 million craft businesses in France on a daily basis and who have already massively reformed to respond to state requirements. Over the past 10 years, regionalization, the merger of regions, the reorganization of training, the creation of the one-stop shop: all these reforms have required great adaptability from the CMA. Today, while the economic situation is complicated, the response of many CMA leaders is not up to par, by implementing savings plans outside of any social dialogue, lacking transparency. and directly threatening jobs. There have been numerous alerts from employee representatives to denounce the anxiety-provoking work climate that these reforms create. In this context, the frustrations linked to the differences in remuneration of CMA agents are expressed all the more, even though CMA staff have just been excluded from the increases in the index scales applied to civil servants in July 2023 and January 2024. For all these reasons, it appears useful for the Minister to be able to speak with employee representatives to find ways to sustain the financing of the CMA network. Also, he questions him about the possible opening of negotiations between CMA France and the representative trade union organizations, in the presence of supervisory authorities, in order to develop a GPEC agreement.

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