The pension system in France must be reformed to guarantee its financial balance, said Wednesday the president of Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux in an interview with AFP, after an interview with Elisabeth Borne.
We need pension reform. There is a subject of demography which unfortunately means that the financial situation will deteriorate from next year and that we are in deficits which are very significant and that the system must be rebalanced, assured the leader of the first French employers’ organization, whose companies bring together more than 9 million employees.
The only totem we have is not age [de dpart]but the financial balance, underlined Mr. Roux de Bzieux.
He added that there could be a much more generous scenario at age 65 on early departures, the minimum contributory, etc. and a 64-year-old scenario which is necessarily less generous in terms of compensation.
We had no signs at all from the Prime Minister for either of these options, he reported. The head of government received Tuesday and Wednesday all the trade unions and employers’ organizations.
Regarding the minimum pension, the Medef agrees to finance a contributory minimum which is 85% of the Smic, but it seems important to me that the active earn more than the withdrawals, said Mr. Roux de Bzieux.
The leader of Medef estimated that it would only be possible to finance this measure for new retirements in the event of raising the age of departure to 64, while a departure at 65 would, according to him, make it possible to benefit from it. all withdrawals.
Regarding the wear and tear criteria at work allowing people to leave earlier, we understand that we will arrive at a balanced position with the branches which will negotiate on business codes which will have been presumably exposed to hardship factors, and that then there will be will have for these professions a reinforced individual medical follow-up to determine whether or not they should leave earlier.
Finally, on the subject of the senior index that the government wishes to put in place to improve the employment rate of people close to retirement, we reiterated our opposition in principle, explained Mr. Roux de Bzieux.
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A company that hires a lot of apprentices and therefore sees its percentage of seniors reduced mathematically will be classified as a bad company compared to a company that has done nothing, he took as an example to illustrate the fears of the government. employers’ organization.
For his part, Jean-Christophe Repon, the vice-president of the Union of local businesses (U2P), which represents craftsmen and liberal professions, asked his exit from Matignon that the reform include a revaluation of the small pensions that many receive of artisans.
For him, it is also important that wear and tear at work be tackled on a joint interbranch level, and more in prevention than in repair.
These elements are for us fundamental to be able to save the pay-as-you-go pension system to which the crafts and the liberal professions are very attached, argued Mr. Repon.