Is there still grain to grind in the pension reform in full discussion in the Senate and on the eve of a mobilization that the unions hope will be historic? After having made concessions to the right in the National Assembly over long careers, the executive who has multiplied the gestures towards the LR camp in the Luxembourg Palace to get his reform approved is beginning to slow down. With one concern: that the reform, which was going to contribute 17,700 million by 2030, would be much less profitable.
• Raise the retirement age to 64 years
At the heart of the pension reform, the increase in the retirement age is the main stumbling block. He is unanimous against him, from the union front to the entire left, including the French who reject him en masse, from poll to poll. But for the Government it is not about returning to it by dropping ballast and going, for example, to 63 years of age.
“I remind you that the president’s program evoked the 65th birthday, so we have already heard the concerns. We are in the nuclear reactor of our action. We will not go back,” deciphers a Macronie heavyweight at the Palais-Bourbon. with from BFMTV.com.
The executive also judges that he is in a position of strength thanks to the senatorial right, which has already voted on several occasions that the retirement age be 64 years. “We are not the ones who voted for Mr. Macron’s reform, it is the majority of Mr. Macron who chose to vote for our reform”, Bruno Retailleau, the head of the LR senators, also summed up this Sunday on RTL.
• Women’s races
Voted in the Senate Social Affairs Committee last week, the better consideration of women’s careers, often more bumpy than men’s and affected by childbearing, should easily pass the Senate.
To do this, the senators will defend a 5% surcharge for mothers who would have both a full career after having had at least 2 children and reaching 63 years of age.
“They are very interested in the measure. We still have 2 or 3 little things to fix but it can work”, confirms René-Paul Savary, rapporteur (LR) of the pension reform project.
Which gives a bit of air to the government in great trouble in this aspect of its reform. The Government itself has recognized that the pension reform “will penalize women a little” by the voice of Franck Riesterthe Delegate Minister for Relations with Parliament, before Élisabeth Borne does not denounce “a false trial”.
Olivier Dussopt, the Labor Minister, already announced its approval last week before senators, saying he was “open to working with all political groups wishing to advance family rights.” This measure is expected to cost around 300 million euros a year.
• Long runs
Betting on a confrontation between the deputy LR Aurélien Pradié and the government, the Senate has so far shown little willingness to modify in depth article 8 of the reform on the long career.
However, this part of the bill has drawn strong criticism. Some people who started working early could, depending on their circumstances, having to work 44 years instead of the 43 years established by the bill.
The Prime Minister made a concession on the long-running scheme on February 16 during topical questions in the National Assembly by announcing that people who started working at age 17 could retire after 43 annuities.
But the government’s amendment, calmly presented at the time, does not mention the new age limit of 17, but rather 21. People who started working at 16 or 18 should continue contributing at 44.
During the last day of the session of the bill in the Assembly, Olivier Dussopt finally announced that he would assume on behalf of the government the Pradié amendment that defended 43 annuities for all long careers. Relaunched several times by the oppositionthe Minister of Labor refused to specify the contours of the evolution.
Some hoped the government would clarify its thinking in the Senate version. None of that: he finally returned to the original wording of article 8, without the concessions announced.
“Going back to long races and 44 rentals for them instead of 43 rentals for everyone is very expensive. The government has no interest in getting into the issue if the senatorial right does not insist on the issue”, deciphers Bernard Vivier, director of the high labor institute and specialist in union negotiations.
• Difficulty
Macron’s previous five-year term removed 4 of the 10 difficulty criteria launched in 2015. Carrying heavy loads, painful postures, mechanical vibrations such as those from jackhammers and exposure to chemical risks are no longer part and Therefore, they do not open up the possibility of leaving before under “professional burnout”.
In the pension reform defended by the Government, the executive wants to launch an investment fund of one billion euros to facilitate the recycling of employees in the most difficult sectors while reinforcing the weight of the professional prevention account ( C2P).
If the left has promised to fight to reintegrate the hardship criteria, the right seems not to go. However, the question of toughness could have rounded off the angles with the unions, starting with the CFDT, which has made it one of its workhorses.
“We could really have lowered the pressure with Laurent Berger if we had put a little butter on the toughness issue,” laments a ministerial adviser who points to a “philosophy” issue for the government.
In 2019, Emmanuel Macron explained during a consultation on the reform of punctual pensions -already abandoned- that the term “arduousness” should not be “worshipped”. “It gives the feeling that the job would be difficult,” said the head of state.
Source: BFM TV
