A few days after the presentation of the pension reform, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is preparing to receive the social partners. The meeting has been set for Tuesday and Wednesday, Matignon said Sunday.
While the workers’ unions reject the executive’s project, these exchanges “will make it possible to continue the dialogue that began on October 5 in the framework of the three consultation cycles and to specify the reform project,” the services of the head of government specify.
President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Saturday during his wishes his intention to quickly launch the reform of the pension system, with a view to its application “from the end of the summer” of 2023. The project is scheduled for January 10.
A drop in the retirement age to 64 or even 65
The scheme of the project has not changed since the re-election of the head of state, which determined to increase the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 or even 65 years. The objective, recalled the Head of State, is “to ensure the balance of our system for the coming years and decades”, and “to consolidate our pay-as-you-go pension system”.
The CFDT Secretary General, Laurent Berger, will be the first to be received on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. by Élisabeth Borne. He will be followed by François Hommeril, president of the CFE-CGC, Frédéric Souillot, general secretary of FO and François Asselin, president of the CPME.
On Wednesday, starting at 3:00 p.m., Cyril Chabanier, president of the CFTC, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of MEDEF, Jean-Christophe Repon, vice president of the Union of Local Companies (U2P) and its general secretary Pierre Burban, Laurent Escure, Secretary General of the UNSA, and finally Philippe Martinez, Secretary General of the CGT.
For the first time in twelve years and the Woerth reform (which had raised the legal age from 60 to 62), all unions are willing to mobilize together against the announced reform. Including the CFDT, in a firmer line against any “age measure” since its last congress.
Source: BFM TV
