Two days after the vote by the Senate on an amendment providing for raising the legal retirement age to 64, the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal saw in it on Monday the sign of a possible “majority” on this subject. flammable.
I recognize a form of consistency on the part of the Republicans in the Senate, who every year for several years have tabled amendments on this subject, the minister quipped on the LCI channel.
If the government will not retain this amendment of the senators, Gabriel Attal wants in spite of everything to see the possibility, when a text of law comes before the Parliament, that we find a majority to have it adopted, he added, then that the government only has a relative majority in the National Assembly.
On the side of the Assembly precisely, with the LR group, there is a majority to vote for a text on pensions, if everyone is consistent with the commitments he makes to the French, argued Gabriel Attal.
After hesitating to pass a pension reform via an amendment to the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), the government finally chose to present a text at the beginning of 2023 to reform pensions.
In the meantime, we have chosen to consult with the social partners, recalled Gabriel Attal.
Unions and employers’ organizations have been received since October at the Ministry of Labor and must successively address three blocks of subjects by the end of the year: employment of seniors and professional wear and tear, equity and social justice and balance of the pension system.
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But employee representatives continue to oppose en bloc a postponement of the legal age, currently set at 62 years.
Asked on Monday about the outlines of the target aid which will take over from the fuel discounts at the start of 2023, Gabriel Attal once again outlined some eligibility criteria.
It is an aid which would be conditional on the fact of working, having a car and a registration number declared to benefit from the aid, and being in a popular or middle class category, that is– say people who are struggling to make ends meet, he numbered, quantifying the budget for this aid at 1.5 or 1.6 billion euros.