“Businesses need to change their perspective on seniors.” Exceptional guest of the “BFMTV Forum” this Thursday night, Olivier Dussopt answered questions from the French about the government’s pension reform project.
Among the various testimonies collected during the program, the Minister of Labor was arrested by Patrick, 55, a job seeker for a year.
Today he receives 1,600 euros, he has to sell his house and says that he faces “precariousness” with his credit, his 8-year-old daughter, the electricity to pay… “Everyone’s life.”
An index for hiring older people
Given Patrick’s concern for “being at the same stage as a young person leaving school”, Olivier Dussopt assured that an index was going to be created in this pension to measure the involvement of companies in hiring and retaining seniors in the company. reform.
The Minister of Labor stressed that this index was going to be created in accordance with the exchanges between the government and the social partners.
But the problem of employment for the elderly will not only be addressed within the pension reform, according to Olivier Dussopt. He announced that he will present, next March and April, a bill so that this resumption of work is interesting for both companies and the elderly.
In other words, the minister hopes that seniors, accustomed to high salaries thanks to the seniority acquired in their previous companies, will accept “slightly lower” salaries to be, at the same time, “compensated and compensated” through aid.
Source: BFM TV
