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PARIS \u2014 Muriel P\u00e9nicaud has found a way of subduing Frances combative unions without having to call in riot police: Kill them with consultations.<\/p>\n

In an interview with POLITICO, the French labor minister said that before unveiling a radical reform of work rules in late August, she presided over 300 hours of closed-door talks with trade union bosses in her office.<\/p>\n

The three-month negotiating marathon \u2014 which followed a plan that P\u00e9nicaud had designed and submitted to President Emmanuel Macron for approval \u2014 allowed her to zero in on union concerns, address them individually and head off conflicts before they exploded into public view.<\/p>\n

The result was that the law, Frances most far-reaching reform<\/a> in decades, hit the books in late October without protests bringing the country to a standstill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the labor law, we mixed speed and intensity for the consultations, which are normally seen as opposites. We won seven to eight months because we wanted to have a structural reform whose effects will play out in the medium to long term, all while maintaining our consultations,\u201d said P\u00e9nicaud.<\/p>\n

French workers union CGT protests Macrons labor law reforms in Nantes | Loic Venance\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Now P\u00e9nicaud, a former HR director for Danone who honed her negotiating skills in the private sector, is training her mind on the next assignment: overhauling Frances job training, apprenticeship and unemployment benefit schemes.<\/p>\n

These talks, which aim to modernize the labor market<\/a> and combat unemployment, involve different players and more complexity. The government will submit a bill to parliament for debate, instead of ramming it through via executive decree as with the labor reform.<\/p>\n

But P\u00e9nicaud plans to proceed in the same way to get the job done: by holding meticulous, exhaustive negotiations that leave no stone unturned and are carried out in total secrecy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are different methods for each reform but the three trains will enter the station at the same time, in the form of a single bill,\u201d said P\u00e9nicaud. Unlike the labor bill, which was passed via decree, this is a \u201cnormal piece of legislation. But what it has in common with the labor law is a very deep level of consultations ahead of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan, as currently stated, is to complete most negotiations by the end of January, submit a bill to parliament by April and have a vote by the end of summer.<\/p>\n

If that happens, France will have undergone what P\u00e9nicaud called a \u201cCopernican revolution\u201d in labor relations in less than two years, a rebuke to critics who argued that Macron would buckle under pressure from street protests and withdraw his laws.<\/p>\n

Instead, P\u00e9nicauds team is hard at work doing what she called \u201cafter-sales service\u201d \u2014 making sure the law is actually applied. The law is \u201conly half the work!\u201d she said. \u201cNow whats going to be very interesting is to see what happens within companies. In one month, I met 3,000 company bosses from small-, medium- and large-sized companies. With my staff, weve met more than 5,000 human resources directors across France.\u201d<\/p>\n

But P\u00e9nicaud knows how arduous the road ahead will be.<\/p>\n

In order to overhaul job training and unemployment, the government must convince unions to give up some of the control they currently have over both systems. Negotiations will be non-stop and intensive, with all parties asked to hand in their conclusions by January.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key to success is to be able to allow companies to proposes many more apprenticeship positions. We need to have a Copernican revolution, in the most literal sense. Today, its young people and companies that have to adapt to the system. This relationship needs to be reversed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

When P\u00e9nicaud struck gold<\/strong><\/h3>\n

P\u00e9nicauds lengthy experience with labor issues and her sense of timing explain why Macron chose her to carry out one of his presidencys most sensitive missions.<\/p>\n

A native of Versailles who got degrees in education and psychology, but did not attend the ENA school of public administration that educates so many of the French elite, P\u00e9nicaud worked as a regional administrator on job-training missions before entering the labor ministry for the first time in 1985.<\/p>\n

After serving as an adviser to Socialist Martine Aubry, who was then labor minister, P\u00e9nicaud veered into the private sector and held a series of high-profile human resources positions, including for Dassault Syst\u00e8mes, a maker of 3D programs. \u201cThats where I get my understanding of how companies and social relations really work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cMore and more of our citizens are aware of developments in globalization, which has often been seen as a risk. Lets seize them as opportunities\u201d \u2014 Muriel P\u00e9nicaud<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A big break came in 2008, when P\u00e9nicaud was named global director of human resources for Danone. Awarded stock options at her hiring, she exercised Read More<\/strong><\/a>
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