Overview
- Friday’s opening session at the CESE in Paris launches a process set to run until next summer with two additional plenaries and monthly workshops.
- The program for day one spans three themes: transformations of work, career progression including youth and senior employment with skills needs, and the demographic turn for the pensions system.
- The main employers’ group Medef is staying out after walking out of an earlier method meeting and opting for an autonomous agenda; the Solidaires union is also absent.
- The CGT decided to participate after obtaining guarantees on the agenda, joining the other representative unions at the table.
- The kickoff comes as the government faces a contested Social Security budget, with officials underscoring that the forum is meant for debate rather than formal bargaining.