The CEO of Veolia, a group specialized in water and waste treatment, insisted this Saturday on “the challenge” of taking into account the hardness of the work, implying that there was an effort to be made on that side. He was speaking three days before of an inter-union mobilization against the government’s pension reform project.
“An employee who goes down into the sewers to clean them with a respirator mask is not considered painful work today,” was surprised Estelle Brachlianoff, general director of Veolia to the microphone of France Inter in the program ‘We do not stop’. the ecological one.” At Veolia, “we can see that’s more the problem, rather than supporting the elderly,” added Estelle Brachlianoff, when asked about the disputed pension reform bill. In her group, which employs to 55,000 people in France, “you’re not old when you’re 55 or 60,” he said.”At Veolia we support the elderly.”
Considering the difficulty of certain trades between trading avenues
The mobilization of January 31 has the support of the eight main French public and private unions against the government project. The deputies must take advantage of Monday in commission of the challenged text. The bill provides for the lowering of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years, the acceleration of the extension of the contribution period and the progressive abolition of most of the special regimes still in force, including those of the RATP and those of industries of electricity and gas.
Among the negotiation channels mentioned to try to find a way out of the conflict are the hiring of older people, a better consideration of cut female careers, of those who started working at 20 years of age or of the hardship of certain trades.
A one stop shop for wastewater reuse projects
Estelle Brachlianoff also insisted on the need to “accelerate” and “simplify” the administrative procedures for the execution of wastewater reuse projects, particularly for agriculture, in order to save water resources and face new scorching summers such as that of 2022.
Source: BFM TV
