Irreconcilable agreement or positions: promoted by François Bayrou, the “conclave” of social partners in pensions must be completed, this Tuesday, June 17, by a last meeting, between the starting age that would not move and counterpart in the Arduity.
Final point, really? The prime minister said on Monday ready to grant “a few more days”, beyond the deadline on Tuesday, the five participants who still present-CFDT, CFTC, CFE-CGC on the side of the Union, Medef and CPME.
And he launched a new proposal, he gives a “cousin” to the upper employees. A “part of his retirement, in addition to his salary”, could be paid to the employee “that would have reached his retirement rights” and decide “to remain at work,” he told the press.
Initiative that obviously took the unions. “We discovered that in the press,” said one of the participants of the discussions on Monday afternoon, that he had not received details about the new idea of the prime minister.
An agreement presented to the National Assembly?
As a reminder, the consultation, began on February 27, was originally to reach its conclusions on May 28. And the process has already experienced its part of doors that hit, with the exits of the first meeting and after the CGT and the U2P (organ of artisans on the employer’s side) in mid -March.
The “conclave” challenge is the size: to find a common land to make the reform of the limited pension of 2023 less unpopular, with the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
And rebuild the pension system that, without countermeasures, would sink into a deficit encrypted at 6.6 billion euros in 2030, according to the projection of the pension orientation council (COR).
It is also a really moment for François Bayrou, who had launched this new discussion format after an established commitment to the Socialists to avoid the censorship of the government.
Then, the prime minister promised to present a possible agreement of the social partners before Parliament. Even if things are no longer so clear according to the words reported in the gallery on Sunday: “Everything will depend on whether or not the agreement includes legislative provisions.”
Prison, increase in contributions, women’s career
Before getting there, the “conclave” should give birth to common conclusions. This is “50/50”, echo Marylise Léon, general secretary of the CFDT, and Patrick Martin, president of the Medef, main representative of the employer, interviewed by the Tribune on Sunday, about the possibilities of achieving a common text.
However, the equation could complicate Pascale Coton, negotiator of the CFTC, last Thursday at the end of the penultimate interview: “If we are five to sign, it is a real commitment; if we only have three sign (the unions), it would not be the same.”
Even if it had not been a great mystery from the beginning, the MEDEF has ratified since last Tuesday that it would not advance in the era of the game at 64. This does not necessarily mean an end of inadmissibility for the unions.
Everything will depend on what employers will launch in terms of women’s careers, arduous or greater contribution.
In professional wear, the CFDT wants the Professional Prevention account (C2P) to be reviewed and corrected to allow integrating the criteria for handling heavy loads, painful postures or mechanical vibrations. So that employees in question can fall a little earlier.
“There will be no agreement with the CFDT if the employers do not progress anymore” on this question, he warned Marylise Léon in the gallery on Sunday.
Financing disagreements
And there is still an important blindness: what about the financing of the pension system? “Medef and CPME do not want to participate in the financial effort,” Grince Pascale Coton for the CFTC: employer organizations refuse to increase the contributions of employees or employers.
For financing sources, unions do not reject the idea that retirees can be used. The planned scenarios revolve around a sub -indexation of pensions on inflation, as is the case of additional Pensions of Agirc -Arco, or an increase in CSG levels that probably are already modest retirees.
Source: BFM TV
