The Minister of Labor spoke on Tuesday evening on his remarks dating from 2010, when, as a PS deputy, he castigated the decline in the legal retirement age.
“Political maturity means that we sometimes avoid simplistic solutions.” Asked about his vehement remarks against the decline in the retirement age in 2010, the Minister of Labor assumed this Tuesday evening on BFMTV his change of position.
While Elisabeth Borne presented the government’s pension reform project which provides, among other things, for the gradual increase in the retirement age to 64 by 2030, Olivier Dussopt admitted to having “matured” in order to better “to measure the constraints and the complexity of things”.
A “very different moment”
In 2010, at the time a PS deputy, the Minister of Labor – today on the front line to defend executive pension reform – castigated the project carried by the government of François Fillon, which planned “to raise the legal age of retirement gradually from 60 to 63 years by 2030”.
“This desire to raise the retirement age is doubly unfair,” he told the National Assembly.
Almost 13 years later, Olivier Dussopt felt that the two eras are incomparable. “We are also at a very different time with an unemployment rate that is out of proportion in 2010 (over 12%),” he explained.
He added: “In 2010, the reform did not include all the tools that we foresee: better measurement of hardship, long careers, there was no minimum retirement…”
