The pension reform provides for the establishment of a “senior index” and Matignon evokes “additional constraints” to improve the presence of older workers in companies. A perspective that arouses the opposition of employers’ organizations.
by Bertrand Bissuel
Coup de semonce without a future or real change of approach? While the pension reform was to be presented on Monday, January 23, in the Council of Ministers on Monday, January 23, the Executive suddenly hardens the tone towards the bosses. The idea of dictating new obligations to them to use seniors has just been put on the table by the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, and by his colleague in charge of action and public accounts , Gabriel Attal. These positions attract attention because until now, the power in place has often been criticized for asking businesses very little effort when the assets will have to work longer (up to 64 years , in the long term, in most cases) to have the right to claim their pension.
It was Mr. Attal who drew the first. In an interview put online on Saturday evening by the daily Le Parisien, he says that members of the government are “very open (…) to look without taboo coercive measures [against] companies that would not play the game “To keep employees close to the sixties in their workforce. The next day, on BFM-TV, Mr. Véran added. To the question of whether to be more demanding with regard to business leaders, he replied: “Why not?” “It is still a strong coffee that France is a country in which we would not recognize people who have expertise, experience, know-how and [who] want to work, this ability to assert it, “he added.
In the bill presented on Monday, it is planned to establish a “senior index”, the aim of which is to “objectify” the presence of older workers in companies. Those with at least 300 employees will be required to publish the results of this barometer which seeks to “promote good practices”. In case of breach, they are exposed to financial penalties of up to 1 % of the payroll.
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Already very critical of this device, which he deems devoid of meaning, Medef, by the voice of its president Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, badly digests the interventions of MM. Attal and Véran. “Beyond the impossibility of comparing companies with each other and, above all, to define the” good “and” bad “results, typing on businesses will not cease demonstrations,” he confides. In other words, the reform will continue to be unpopular even if it punishes the bosses. For Mr. Roux de Bézieux, it would be preferable that “we seriously discuss the subject with the unions” as close as possible to the field.
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