The aging of the French population is confirmed. In its latest report on “changes and prospects for pensions in France”, the pension orientation council (COR) provides that average life expectancy at 60 will reach 29.3 years among men and 31.3 years in women in 2070.
Such an evolution has never occurred before, which allows former Minister Michèle Delaunay to redefine France as a “society of longevity” and the economist Maxime Sbaihi to qualify the situation as “great aging “.
an incentive to deemploi
For almost thirty years, to deal with aging, the various governments have reformed by using only the parameter of the legal departure age with as a corollary the number of contribution quarters required for a full -rate retirement . Since the “Balladur reform” of July 22, 1993, political leaders have continued to push the French to work longer. Consequently, successive legislation poses on those who work the increasingly heavy responsibility to finance the pensions of those who no longer work.
This intergenerational solidarity has a cost and arouses increasingly virulent controversies. Thus, Maxime Sbaihi asks to “better distribute between ages the collective efforts to be provided in the face of a demographic revolution for which no one is responsible” (The great aging, Editions de l’Observatoire, 2022), while François de Closets assimilates the Boomers to “a generation that lived in the hooks of his children” (La Parenthèse Boomers, Fayard, 2022).
If parametric reforms have their justification on the budgetary level, they disregard the unemployment of seniors. Because by dint of postponing the legal retirement age, politicians ended up encouraging de -employment. By a law of December 18, 1963, the government of Georges Pompidou (1911-1974) began by authorizing the negotiation of pre-retirement agreements in companies.
In 1972, another law established the guarantee of resources, by which the State undertook to pay allowances to seniors which were involuntarily deprived of work and could not yet benefit from retirement pensions. On June 13, 1977, a national interprofessional agreement extended the payment of these allowances to resigning seniors.
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