Could the executive strengthen its bill, in order to make it more restrictive in terms of employment for the elderly? “But why not”, responded the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, on BFMTV on Sunday, on the eve of the presentation of the pension reform in the Council of Ministers, which provides, in particular, for the lowering of the age retirement at age 64.
“Coercive measures for companies that do not play the game”
“It is still a strong coffee that France is a country where we would not recognize people who have knowledge, experience, knowledge and want to work in this capacity to do so. It’s worth it,” she added.
On Saturday night, the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, for his part, told Le Parisien that at this point the executive was “very open to proposals for incentives, recycling and to look without taboo at coercive measures for companies they wouldn’t play the part.” match”.
A senior index that leaves the unions in doubt
In its project presented on January 10, the government bets first on a “senior index” intended to change the behavior of companies, but which leaves the unions in great doubt, while the employment rate of 55-64 years is 56% in France. , below the European average (60.5%).
This index “will make it possible to promote good practices and denounce bad ones”, according to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne. If the refusal to provide information is sanctioned, no reprisals are foreseen for companies in which the labor insertion of the elderly does not progress, except for the reinforced obligation to negotiate a social agreement to improve the situation.
Although the text must be presented on Monday in the Council of Ministers, before reaching the Assembly at the end of January, “it is precisely one of the aspects of the law on which we say: we are open to proposals that parliamentarians can make “. ”, insisted Mr. Véran.
A risk of “transforming the National Assembly into a ZAD”
The government spokesman also warned “opposition groups” in the Assembly, urging them to “let parliamentarians debate.” “The democratic danger is that an opposition group decides to transform the National Assembly into a ZAD, that is to say depriving the deputies of being able to examine, enrich, transform, amend this text of law”, Véran assured.
He was referring to the statements by the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens, Marine Tondelier, who had called for the Palais Bourbon to be transformed into a “zone to defend”. “It is true that if there is a group that arrives and throws you tens of thousands of amendments so that you do not examine this text, then, if you have 70,000 amendments, it would be 4 years of debate in Parliament, we would only do that in the field” warned Olivier Véran again.
The Executive has, however, chosen to frame this reform in a Social Security amending budget (PLFSSR), which limits debates to 20 days at first reading in the Assembly, commission and hemicycle included.
Source: BFM TV
