“Other pension schemes are ‘possible’,” Labor Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou declared this Saturday in an interview with Ouest-France, while new talks will begin with social partners on pensions after the suspension of the 2023 reform.
The minister mentions in particular in this interview “the project of a points system, abandoned in 2020 due to Covid, which left each person to choose the moment of their departure.” Jean-Pierre Farandou also cites the option of a retirement by “capitalization” and that of a “mixture of several systems.”
“All this deserves to be studied, thought about, discussed, debated, taking your time. It is a social choice,” says Jean-Pierre Farandou. During his general policy speech on Tuesday, the new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu proposed suspending the pension reform “until the presidential elections” in 2027. He proposed to the social partners holding a new conference at which “the question of the entire management of our pension system” should be raised.
Waiting for the presidential elections
If the participants manage to issue their first conclusions “next spring”, “the Government will transform the agreement into law and Parliament will decide”, specified the minister, for whom “it will be up to the candidates for the presidential elections to make their proposals”, he stated. Asked about a possible new unemployment insurance reform, he did not want to comment on this issue, indicating that it is “in the process of being resolved.”
Source: BFM TV
