“Political maturity means that we sometimes avoid simplistic solutions.” Asked about his vehement statements against the lowering of the retirement age in 2010, the Minister of Labor assumed this Tuesday night on BFMTV the change of his position.
While Elisabeth Borne presented the government’s pension reform project that foresees, among other things, the gradual increase in the retirement age to 64 by 2030, Olivier Dussopt admitted having “matured” to “better measure the limitations and the complexity of things”.
A “very different time”
In 2010, then a representative of the PS, the Minister of Labor – today in the front line to defend executive pension reform – criticized the project carried out by the government of François Fillon, which provided for “raising the legal retirement age gradually from 60 to 63 by 2030”.
“This desire to raise the retirement age is doubly unfair,” he told the National Assembly.
Almost 13 years later, Olivier Dussopt felt that the two eras are incomparable. “We are also in a very different time with an unemployment rate that is out of proportion in 2010 (over 12%),” he explained.
And he added: “In 2010, the reform did not include all the tools that we foresee: better measurement of hardships, long careers, there was no minimum retirement…”
Source: BFM TV
