We must "press pause" for "a few months" on the subject of pension reform, while safeguarding employment and business competitiveness is the priority, estimated on Saturday the President of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux. "We must [...] put all our energy into what matters, that is to say the production tool," said the boss of the bosses during a debate with the secretary general of the CFDTLaurent Berger at the Aix-en-Seine Economic Meetings.
"It's a break to resume, not a break forever," he said. Laurent Berger, who had already denounced Friday the will of Emmanuel Macron to relaunch this summer the "consultation" on the financial balances of the pension system, for his part noted Saturday "such opposition in our country on this subject that we have no interest in putting ourselves on the figure at the start of the school year or during the summer on the subject ”.
"Huge financial hole"
For the president of Medef, "if we have managed to save jobs, if we don't have the million (additional) unemployed people that everyone promises us at the end of the year, we can leave." "And then yes, we will have to discuss pensions because there is this universal system project, but there is also a huge financial hole," he added.
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux also reiterated his reservations on a universal points system wanted by Laurent Berger. The universal system, "as we start from a very complicated system, it's good on Powerpoint", but "I find that it doesn't work," he said.
In an interview with the regional daily press published Thursday evening, Mr. Macron affirmed that "there would (would be) no abandonment" of his project for a universal system, which he always judges "just", even if 'he says he is "open" to his reform "being transformed".
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