Guillaume Dominguez
While Édouard Phillipe, mayor of Le Havre, is positioning himself for a postponement of the retirement age to 65 or even 67, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, he says he is thinking about reducing the duration of compensation for the unemployment of seniors and encourages companies to employ them.
This is the hottest debate of the season. Edouard Philippe pleads again for a postponement of the retirement age to 65 or even 67 years. At the same time, in the columns of Sunday newspaperthe Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, he says he is thinking about reducing the duration of unemployment compensation for seniors.
Retirement at 67?
While France remains a bad student in terms of employment of seniors, pushing back the legal retirement age risks aggravating the problem and tipping many employees into precariousness. To avoid this scenario, Olivier Dussopt therefore wants to put pressure on companies, but also on the unemployed.
The duration of unemployment compensation could be lowered, whereas it is currently 36 months from the age of 55. At the same time, the Minister of Labor wants a senior who accepts a less well-paid job to be able to keep part of his unemployment benefit in order to compensate for the loss of earnings.
These proposals could make the unions jump, already all hostile to the idea of a gradual postponement of the retirement age to 65 or even 66 or 67 as envisaged by Édouard Philippe. The former Prime Minister calls on his camp to move “a lot” on pension reform. This reform is in his eyes “essential”, in particular to limit the indebtedness of France. The mayor of Le Havre assures him his objective “is not to plead for the harshest solution in order to annoy the world.”