In the 1980s, nearly 2 million individuals worked part-time for less than half the minimum wage via schemes such as the TUC. Thanks to the pension reform, these quarters are now taken into account for the full rate. But for some, that’s not enough. And for good reason, uncontributed, these quarters do not give access to early retirement via the long career system.
TUC (collective utility work reserved for public service and associations), SIVP (introductory courses for professional life in a company) and other integration courses now count towards the number of quarters required for a full-rate departure. legal retirement age.
An advance, but which remains insufficient for some of the 1.7 million individuals concerned. They actually feel bored, particularly for early departures. In fact, the quarters recorded via these systems are not contributed but assimilated. Which simply means that these four quarters agreed on periods worked before the age of 18, 19, 20 or 21 are not taken into account for the calculation of long careers. They therefore do not allow early retirement, reports The Parisian.
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The Facebook group TUC, les oublis de la retirement created in 2020 and the association of the same name, decided to take the matter to court.
We could have remained unemployed and there we would have been entitled to these four quarters of contributions and not just assimilated… It’s a feeling of injustice for everyone, explained Marie, the president of the association and employee in the metallurgy at Parisian. When the government says it is going to repair a past injustice, it must be repaired entirely. People are pretty pissed, she adds.
Horizons MP Paul Christophe, member of the Social Affairs Committee, said he partly understood their dissatisfaction. The first request has been answered. If we move to the second, that of paid quarters, the same would have to be done for all vocational training trainees. This would pose a problem of financial sustainability, before adding that we will have to find a way out, perhaps by facilitating the redemption of quarters at an affordable price.
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