Hardship, the other subject that can derail pension reform

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The CFDT has made it a hard point of the ongoing consultation at the Ministry of Labor. At the employers’ level, some are trying to find a compromise with Laurent Berger.

By Marc Vignaud

EEmmanuel Macron defended his pension reform at length on Wednesday evening on the France 2 set. years, and not at 65, as he had announced during his campaign, provided that this increase in the age of opening of pension rights is accompanied by a slightly faster increase in the contribution period than what is already planned. The starting age would then be only 63 at the end of the five-year term, in an attempt to reconcile the CFDT. The decline in the retirement age remains a red line for the reformist union and its general secretary, Laurent Berger, but its opposition could be less frontal.

For now, the age component and f…

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