The postponement of the legal age at 65 is “not a totem,” said the Prime Minister on Tuesday, before continuing discussions with the social partners.
By Bertrand Bissuel
The pension reform is not yet engraved in the marble of the law. This is, in essence, the message that Elisabeth Borne wanted to convey, Tuesday, January 3 on Franceinfo. The Prime Minister has given very little new information on this controversial project, the main lines of which must be revealed on January 10. She reaffirmed that the idea of postponing from 62 to 65 years the legal age of opening rights to a pension is “not a totem”, even if this measure appears in the program of Emmanuel Macron. One way of indicating that the executive remains receptive to dialogue, while the tenant of the Matignon hotel was, again, receive the social partners on this file, Tuesday and Wednesday.
The only real announcement made by M Me terminal concerns the calendar. She said that the bill relating to the transformation of our pension system will be presented on January 23 in the Council of Ministers. As expected, the text will then be examined in the National Assembly in early February, with an implementation from “the end of the summer”.
The government’s heading confirmed that the executive’s objective was to restore the financial “balance” of the pension plans – taken in their entirety – to “2030”. To achieve this, postponement to 65 years of legal age represents an option, but there are “other solutions,” she said, adding: “On all these subjects, we continue to discuss with the employers and union organizations, and with the various political parties which are represented in the Senate and in the National Assembly. “
” We do not have an illusion “
The spirit of openness displayed by the Prime Minister has very little chance of lifting – or even mitigating – the hostility of employee organizations to the reform. A few hours before being received at the Matignon hotel, the union leaders continued to think that consensus would be impossible to find, even if several of them wanted to go to the end of the talks. “Whenever the possibility will be offered to us to discuss, we will respond, in order to continue our work of conviction in favor of the rights of employees, whether it be measures relating to long careers or to prevent arduousness,” confides Laurent Berger, the secretary general of the CFDT. This new meeting with M terminal “is not useless”, completes Cyril Chabanier, the president of the CFTC, who still hopes to obtain positive arbitrations on certain themes: the revaluation of the minimum pension, The rights granted to people who have raised children, the fight against professional wear and tear, the employment of seniors …
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