It is an explosive measure. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne clarified on Tuesday January 10 the contours of the very controversial pension reform which aims to “guarantee the balance of the system” in 2030. In addition to pushing back the retirement age to 64, the executive has acted “the extinction of the main special regimes”. “It’s a matter of fairness”justified the chief executive.
For his part, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt assured that “special diets have become archaic as the reality of the trades has evolved”. Delete them, “It’s having the courage that no one had before”he added to the press.
• Which special diets are abolished?
“New recruits at the RATP and the Banque de France” will in particular be affiliated to the general retirement scheme, as will clerks, employees of notaries and those of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Cese), specified the executive in a press kit released a few minutes before the announcements of the Prime Minister.
New employees in the electricity and gas industry branch, which includes nearly 150 companies (including RTE, Engie or Enedis), are also affected by the abolition of special schemes.
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At the RATP, the special pension scheme concerns approximately 40,000 employees, compared to 5,500 on permanent contracts under private law. On the other hand, only certain personnel benefit from specific measures allowing early retirement: these are drivers, station agents, security agents, control agents and personnel in charge of track maintenance.
In these different areas, the “grandfather clause” applies: only new entrants from 1 September 2023 will be affiliated to the general pension scheme. In addition, for people already in post, “the progressive two-year shift in the legal age and the acceleration of the Touraine reform will apply to current employees of special schemes, but taking into account their specificities”says the government.
• What special diets are retained?
The regimes of the Paris Opera, the Comédie Française and the fishermen will not be modified, as will the autonomous regimes enjoyed by lawyers and the liberal professions.
• What about civil servants?
With regard to the civil service, Minister Stanislas Guérini confirmed that the reform would apply in the same way. ” This means that the progressive decline in the age of opening of pension rights on the one hand, and that the acceleration of the rate of increase in the duration of insurance on the other hand (…) will be transposed in a way strictly identical to the regime applicable to sedentary civil servants and active categories”, he specified.
Pension reform: seniors still pushed out
More than ten years after the abolition of the progressive cessation of activity, the government announced on Tuesday the return of a progressive retirement system in the public service, “on the same principles as the existing system for employees and the self-employed” according to a government press kit. We will allow public servants “to go part-time two years before the retirement age”or from the age of 62, said Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
Until now, civil servants in the active category who changed jobs during their career lost the right to early retirement obtained because of the difficulty of their job. From now on, “the benefit of years of service” in a difficult job will be “definitively acquired, regardless of professional development” of the agents concerned, insisted the Minister of Public Service Stanislas Guerini on Tuesday evening.
• And the military and police?
Soldiers, gendarmes, customs officers, firefighters, police officers and nursing assistants do not benefit from a special regime but are called “active categories”. They have a right to early departure, taking into account their “risk exposure”. This right will be retained, said Olivier Véran this Wednesday, January 11 on Franceinfo. Thus, firefighters, police officers or nurses will be able to claim their retirement rights at 54 or 59 years old depending on the profession exercised, against 52 and 57 years old currently.
“In practice, these active categories leave beyond the age at which they can leave. The impact will therefore be minimal for most of them.assured the government spokesman.
