The reform was to come into force in early 2023, despite the unanimous opposition of the social partners, who saw it as a risk of “capturing” their recipes by the “security”.
Le Monde with AFP
The Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, opposed on the night of Monday 7 to Tuesday, November 8, to the project to transfer the collection of contributions from the Agirc-Arrco supplementary pension plan to URSSAF, which ensures social security cash.
The reform, voted at the end of 2019, was to enter into force in early 2023, despite the unanimous opposition of the social partners, from the CGT to MEDEF. The government intended to repel this one -year deadline in favor of the project of the security budget, examined since Monday at first reading by the senators.
The upper room has canceled the transfer by adopting by 302 votes to 28 (including the RDPI, majority Renaissance) a series of amendments from the right as from the left of the hemicycle.
“Collection is already well done”
Alain Milon (Les Républicains, LR) and Olivier Henno (centrist) have notably considered that if this reform could be justified within the framework of a reform of point pensions, it was no longer justified as the latter n ‘was more topical.
“Collection is already well done” by Agirc-Arrco, argued René-Paul Savary (LR), rapporteur of the old age branch, asking the government how it “had succeeded in such a short time [ to put themselves on the back so many people “.
“When you want to make a pension reform (…), you may have to give a guarantee of trust” to the social partners, he added.
The Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy and Finance, Roland Lescure, assured that he was “in no way a question of converging in anything the regimes, but rather to transfer the collection In terms of URSSAF “, highlighting” a question of collection efficiency “.
87 billion euros in revenue this year
Co-managed by unions and employers, the complementary pension plan for managers and employees of the Privé Agirc-Arrco serves a service for some 13 million people. Its resources come mainly from contributions sitting on the payroll.
The managers of the Agirc-Arrco regime had denounced in early October a risk of “capturing” their revenue (more than 87 billion euros this year) by the Sociét. A fear also relayed by Marylise Léon, number two of the CFDT, who wonders if the state does not have “the temptation to use the reserves of Agirc-Arrco”, and by the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.
A solemn vote throughout the social security financing bill – struck the use of 49.3 in the National Assembly – will be organized on November 15.