One of the rare differences between the government and the senatorial right on the pension reform. The Executive that continues to quarrel with the Republicans to get a vote on the pension reform has said no to accelerating the suppression of special regimes. To the chagrin of some who say they can’t trust Olivier Dussopt.
“There is such a difference between words and deeds. They say sweet words to us on the podium but they take us for a walk,” Senator LR René-Paul Savary, one of the specialists in the pension file, judges thus with BFMTV.com. .
“Totally unfair”
However, the right has announced the color for weeks to the executive: it wants to speed up the end of special diets. In the current state of the reform, the pension scheme for the RATP, the EESC, notaries, EDF and the gas industries will be abolished in the summer for all new entrants.
It is even the only article of the pension reform bill that was approved in the National Assembly. But current employees will continue to benefit from their special regime, under what is called “the grandfather clause”. The reform only affects future entrants who will be aligned with the general pension system. A heresy for the senatorial right.
“So we have people who are going to do the same job in a company, but one can leave at 58 because he entered earlier and the other at 64. It is totally unfair,” advances Senator LR Catherine Deroche, president of the Commission on Social Affairs. .
Olivier Dussopt’s hesitations
The senatorial right defends an amendment that seeks convergence by 2040. Specifically, this would mean that employees who joined their company before the end of the special regimes will no longer benefit from them if they retire after 2040.
But for the government, the issue is too hot to continue on this ground. Four days after the mobilization on March 7, which the unions expect to be massive, entering this field could represent a provocation.
After calling himself “open” on the issue this Sunday on BFMTV, Olivier Dussopt finally backed down. This Thursday, a few hours after the opening of the debates in the Senate, the Minister of Labor finally closed the door.
“Returning to the grandfather clause is not what the Government wants. We have said from the beginning that we want to respect the social contract,” the former socialist launched on RTL.
“Fuel for the fire” for centrist senators
The minister was also careful not to put the issue on the rug again during his speech before the Senate to open the debates a few hours later. If the Government has not endorsed this request, when it could say yes to the rest of LR’s proposals, such as the pension surcharge for mothers with 2 children or more, it is because it does not need it.
The centrists, whom the right needs at all costs to get the text approved, are strongly opposed to accelerating the abolition of special regimes.
“It is not worth adding fuel to the fire,” Élisabeth Doineau (UDI) and general rapporteur of the Social Affairs Committee explained to us this Monday, evacuating any mobilization of her group at the proposal of her colleagues.
What relieves the executive who is unable to calm the dispute and who is once again in trouble for retirement at 1,200 euros, one of the key aspects of his reform.
Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise, already had lead on the wing, far from a mass generalization as mentioned during the presidential election, and still continues to cause a stir.
Far from there being 40,000 new retirees each year, as the Minister of Labor had stated on France inter on February 15, only “between 10,000 and 20,000 people will cross the threshold of 1,200 euros”, states a letter from his ministry , sent to the Socialist Society deputy Jérôme Guedj at his request.
Source: BFM TV
