On the eve of the presentation of its pension reform, the government is making the final adjustments on Monday without giving up on postponing the retirement age, while insisting on the “social” support of its project, without deterring the unions from demonstrating. .
While a postponement of the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 remains the hypothesis favored by the executive, we must “not remain beta-blocked on the age” but find “the means to bring more “social support, more pensions,” said Minister Delegate for SMEs Olivia Grégoire.
François Bayrou, boss of the MoDem, ally of the majority, even considers that “signs will be needed” from the government for this reform to be “felt as fair”, and slips that a “very slight increase” in employer contributions could also “contribute powerfully” to filling the gap in the system.
Sacha Houlié, Renaissance president of the Assembly’s Law Commission, confirmed on Monday the track of a postponement of the retirement age gradually increased to 64, with an acceleration of the Touraine reform without affecting the 43 years of contributions. .
“Righteous Efforts”
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is due to present her reform on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., after questions to the government.
“We know that this reform will require effort” with the age measure, but “the challenge” is “to ensure that these efforts are fair”, Sacha Houlié further pleaded.
There are “not many choices left” other than the legal age, he justified “from the moment when you do not want to lower the pensions”, and “where you do not want to increase the contributions, even if even we could discuss the amount”.
“Smashed”
Several employees in a difficult job, interviewed by AFP, are worried about arriving already worn out when they retire.
Khemissa Khemissi, 52, a worker in a slaughterhouse in Fleury-les-Aubrais, testifies to “difficult work because we are up all day in the cold, sometimes with ten-hour days”.
Roselyne Lecellier, 59, nursing assistant at the Nice University Hospital says that “working 12 hours straight, working nights and weekends, it fucks you up in terms of your health”.
“Reinforced medical monitoring” for difficult jobs
On the arduousness, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt claims to have “responded” to the reformist unions with “reinforced medical monitoring” for “ergonomic risks”.
For the employment of seniors, very low in France, the government should set up an index, with the obligation to negotiate an agreement in the event of a lack of communication on this tool.
The government would also be ready to raise, during the parliamentary debate, the minimum pension to 1200 euros for all retirees and not just for new entrants.
A mobilization date known Tuesday evening
But for the boss of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, with this reform, “we return to what our elders knew, that is to say that after work it is the cemetery”, while a quarter of the poorest men according to INSEE are already dead at the age of 62.
“The age measurement is the hardest of the last 30 years”, denounces like him for the CFDT Laurent Berger.
It “will affect these workers who were qualified during the second-line Covid, i.e. workers in home care, agri-food, construction, delivery, trade”, further advances the trade unionist.
All the unions meet on Tuesday evening to announce a mobilization date.
