Airbus, Eaux d’Evian, Orano… Concerned testimonials from early-retired employees have multiplied in recent days. In question: the pension reform that could force them to return to work to benefit from a full pension.
Most of the time, these employees left their company early several months ago, thanks to the vacation days accumulated throughout their career in their savings account on time (CET) or the conversion of their retirement premium to time. But some of them, born in the generation of ’61, fear having to return to work a few months after their discharge. Consequence of the pension reform that progressively lengthens on September 1 the legal retirement age and the contribution period necessary to obtain a full pension.
In Orano, affected employees were alerted by a letter from management, before being invited to contact HR, which offered three solutions: return to work until the missing quarters were met, ease their salary until a new retirement date or take leave without pay.
Two additional terms on average
Wasn’t Orano’s management too fast, despite the fact that the decrees implementing the reform have not yet been published? On Twitter, Orano says that he wanted to “react to handle a situation imposed on us and identify individual cases that may present difficulties.”
“So that employees do not find themselves in a difficult situation and avoid a loss of income, management informed them very quickly in order to better support them in this period of uncertainty. Individual interviews are being carried out to discuss each situation and propose adapted solutions,” he adds. . the group.
According to the company, around sixty employees out of 14,000 have been alerted. “These are employees who have benefited from end-of-career leave plans to leave the company before their effective retirement and who are affected by the new reform” with a lag in retirement “of 2 quarters on average”, considers.
Situations examined by the Ministry of Labor
Asked this Tuesday about the situation of Orano employees, Olivier Dussopt said that he does not “ignore” these “few cases”.
Even so, in the case of Orano, “these are people who are not retired but are on leave of absence”, summarized Olivier Dussopt.
Clearly, the minister invites companies to pay out of pocket for the missing rooms of the affected employees. According to Benoît Serre, deputy vice president of the ANDRH, interviewed by L’Usine Nouvelle, some already provide for this in the contracts in case of changes in the legislation, but with the entry into force of the reform from September, this runs the risk that “it will cost them dearly,” he warns.
Source: BFM TV
