Elisabeth Borne agrees with right on 43 years of contribution for long careers when age required

Employees of the long career system will not have to contribute more than forty-three years to retire as soon as they have reached the anticipated starting age required.

MO12345LEMONDE WITH AFP

In a new concession to the right, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced, Tuesday, February 14, that the employees of the long career system, that is to say who began to work before 21 years, will not have to contribute more than forty-three years to retire as soon as they have reached the required early departure age.

“As soon as the early starting age is reached, the reform does not provide, for long careers, of contribution duration greater than forty-three years,” said Elisabeth Borne during the question session In government, in response to the deputy Les Républicains (LR) Véronique Louwagie.

In the initial project, some long career employees had to contribute forty-four years, especially those who started working between 16 and 18 years old. This “principle” of contribution for forty-three years maximum will be included in a government amendment deposited on Tuesday which already extended the long career system to those who started working between 20 and 21 years. This last point had already been the subject of a first evolution in response to the requests of LR.

born in 2003 of a compromise between the CFDT and the right, then in power, the long careers are again, two decades later, the key to a pension reform. This time between power and the right, whose voices will be crucial to obtain a vote in Parliament. The Republicans still said it on Tuesday in a press release: “we wish to support a reform of the pension system”, provided in particular of “better taking into account the specificity of long careers” so that those who benefit “leave After forty-three annuities “.

seal a political agreement

A request understood by the executive, likely to seal a political agreement, for lack of agreement with unions opposed to the decline of the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years. In its reform project, the government was committed to that “no one was forced to work for more than forty-four years”. From now on, no employee in “long career” will be forced to contribute more than forty-three years as soon as two other conditions will be met: having reached the early starting age and “having worked four or five quarters before a certain age “said Elisabeth Borne.

The changes planned for long careers “are measures,” said the number one of Force Ouvrière, Frédéric Souillot, Sunday on BFM-TV. The idea is however to consolidate this device, which allows those who have entered the career early before the others. The conditions of early departure were sometimes restricted, to save money after the 2008 financial crisis, sometimes softened after the return of the left to business in 2012.

The number of beneficiaries has thus varied by just over 100,000 per year, at the start, less than 25,000, in 2009, before soaring more than 170,000, in 2015, then decrease Until 125,000, in 2021. Even still near one out of five retirement. Almost all of the beneficiaries assert their rights two years before the legal age, therefore at 60 years. To do this, you must have started before 20 years old and have contributed five quarters before the end of the year of your 20 e sup> anniversary.

/Media reports cited above.