Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt said on Saturday he did not see “what difference it makes” to wait to enact the pension reform law despite protests by angry unions over such a quick “passing into force”.
“The constitution says that when the Constitutional Council has given its opinion, the President of the Republic must promulgate it within fifteen days,” he said. “We have chosen to enact immediately after the decision, as is the case with all State Treasury or Social Security laws. They are always promulgated within 24 hours of the ruling of the Constitutional Council”.
For the minister, “it is a step that is taken with the decision of the Constitutional Council”, and “there is no democratic or political crisis”.
Work with unions
The unpopular pension reform, with its emblematic measure of lowering the retirement age to 64, was promulgated overnight from Friday to Saturday in the Official Gazette, after the validation of most of the text by of the Constitutional Council. The inter-union had “solemnly” asked President Emmanuel Macron “not to promulgate the law” on Friday.
The Constitutional Council has only cut some “legislative routes” such as the senior index, supposedly to push large companies (more than 300 employees) to transparency about the place of employees at the end of their career, or even to negotiate in the case of insufficient results.
“It is typically one of the issues (…) that deserve dialogue and consultation with the social partners,” he added, believing that this issue can be raised whenever “they want.”
“I want us to be able to work with the unions,” he said again, as they declined an invitation from the president to meet with them on Tuesday at the Élysée Palace and made it known that they would not accept meetings with the executive. for May 1. “I think that beyond this meeting, there are issues that deserve shared work,” he insisted.
Source: BFM TV
