A concession to the right, a few gestures towards the majority… On the eve of the start of the examination of the pension reform by the deputies, Elisabeth Borne announced, in an interview with the Sunday newspaper February 5, several edits to the text. The most important of them will allow certain assets, having started working young, to claim payment of their pension at age 63, ie one year before the legal retirement age which will be introduced in the long term. The head of government wants to show her spirit of openness, so as to garner the widest possible support, in particular that of the elected Les Républicains (LR), the risk that the executive will be outvoted during the debates being very real. .
First notable change: the extension of the long career system to individuals who started their professional life between the ages of 20 and 21. “They will thus be able to leave at 63”indicates Mme Terminal in the JDD. Several conditions are set: in particular, having contributed for at least four or five quarters before the twenty-first birthday. The measure should concern “up to 30,000” women and men per year, its cost being estimated between 600 million and 1 billion euros over one year.
The Matignon tenant is trying to meet an expectation expressed by LR parliamentarians: to authorize retirement, after forty-three years of contribution, to those who took their first steps on the job market before 21 years. The proposal of M.me However, Borne did not obtain the expected result. “It’s a deception”, reacted on Sunday, Aurélien Pradié (LR), deputy for Lot. The unions, for their part, are not more enthusiastic. “The “move” on long careers is very difficult to decipherbelieves Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the CFDT, in a daily interview The echoes of Monday. Will we allow employees who have contributed forty-three years from the age of 20 to retire (…), and continue to ask employees who started before, that is to say between 16 and 18 years old, forty-four years of contribution? It would be deeply unfair. »
“Political carrot”
The other changes revealed by Mme Borne concern the employment of people in the last years of their career. I’“senior index”which aims to“objective the place” older workers in companies and “promote good practices”will be implemented ” gradually “ in companies with more than 50 employees. This is the target that had been envisaged at the end of the fall of 2022, before the threshold was raised to 300 employees in the bill. The executive therefore returns to its initial idea.
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