Yesterday at Matignon is kept of any final statement

At the Elysee Palace, believed that "it is very well", at Matignon, it slips that "this is fun", and the UMP, it rubs hands. In the majority, was delighted yesterday to see PS to divide again on 35 hours, but everyone was not also from the findings for the right. Jean-François Copé, who wants to make this debate a "key element of the presidential election of 2012", promptly hailed "the courage" of the PS Member Manuel Valls. Determined to drive the nail, the Secretary General of the UMP has also agreed with his assistant Hervé Novelli and the Working Group on the subject, which has the burden, and make tomorrow, when the political bureau of the UMP, a "prérapport, with the condition of the premises and avenues of reform", dixit Hervé Novelli. The leadership of the UMP has views of billions of euros in relief of loads to companies in a time of budget shortages, and would like to negotiate their reduction in exchange for more "flexibility" of the Code of labour in General. By reacting quickly, Jean-François Copé also intends lifting the bar end opposite before Christmas by the Government.

"Unthinkable and dangerous."

Xavier Bertrand and François Baroin had tried the case already "solved" by the flexibilities voted since 2007, and François Fillon was concern about the impact of a decline in the relief of burdens on businesses. "The immediate consequence would be the increase in the cost of the work, and therefore the mechanical increase in unemployment", had said in December, the Prime Minister. Yesterday at Matignon, is kept of any final statement. Because if the Elysee is "not now" to engage in a new reform of working time, the entourage of Nicolas Sarkozy does nothing for the 2012 campaign: "If it can go further that what it has already been made, it will be much", says the Presidency. But the head of State has, said, not intend to broach the subject with the social partners, in which he presents his wishes Thursday. No doubt he wants to take the time to see how the debate turns...

As the controversy can be double-edged. Indeed, she revives, fractures, internal to the left, and may serve as a distraction at a time of rising unemployment. But it may also tend to the social climate, because trade unions, attached to the purchasing power of employees, or employers, clinging to the relief of loads are not applicants. "In the current context, the debate on the brakes at work is essential, but it must also be cautious", said spokesman Dominique Paillé, UMP Deputy. As wanting to go further, is to acknowledge publicly, such as Hervé Novelli, that the flexibility of 2008 "don't work". What hit the author of the law of the time, the Minister of labour, Xavier Bertrand, which repeats that "the 35-hour fashion Aubry are already buried" and judge any new reform "unthinkable for employees and dangerous for companies in crisis." If he considers that "the cost of labour is still a question", the Minister warned: "the employees have already paid the Bill for the 35-hour blockade of wages, cannot be asked to pay twice. How to prevent Nicolas Sarkozy that this theme is perhaps not very bearer in 2012.