Elisabeth Borne will receive several union leaders separately on Thursday morning in Matignon, starting with the heads of the CGT Philippe Martinez and Laurent Berger of the CFDT, a few days before their presentation of the pension reform.
The President of the Government will receive Philippe Martínez, general secretary of the CGT, at 8:30 am, and Laurent Berger, general secretary of the CFDT, at 9:30 am, according to his agenda made public on Thursday night. He will then meet with the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril and that of the CFTC Cyril Chabanier.
A text presented next week
According to the latter, “it is a question of taking stock of the first two aspects” of the reform, which concern employment of the elderly and hardship on the one hand, special regimes, the minimum pension and public service on the other, “but that we would speak less than a third”, of financing and the legal retirement age.
Thursday’s meetings in Matignon will take place the day after a majority dinner at the Élysée, especially dedicated to pensions, around President Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne, with the heads of parliamentary groups and the Renaissance, MoDem and horizons.
The representatives of various parliamentary groups (mostly opposition) will be received next week, before the presentation of the main lines of the reform by Elisabeth Borne around December 15, added the delegation of the head of government.
union opposition
The CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires and FSU unions reaffirmed on Monday night their opposition to “any decrease in the legal retirement age as well as any increase in the contribution period”, and They warned that deciding on a “first date for the mobilization of units” in January “if the government remains propped up in its project.”
Emmanuel Macron had defended during the presidential campaign a postponement of the legal age from 62 to 65 years, before evoking once re-elected a reduction to 64 years together with an increase in the contribution period.
These points are currently the subject of a consultation between the government and the social partners that will end on Friday. A bill must then be tabled in January, before a review in Parliament.
It remains to be seen if, with a relative majority in the Assembly, the Executive will be able to dispense with the use of article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows a text to be adopted without a vote, except for a motion of censure.
Source: BFM TV
