The CFDT "will oppose by all means" a pension reform that would go through an amendment to the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS), including leaving the table of discussions of the National Council for Refoundation ( CNR), said its secretary general Laurent Berger on Sunday.

“(If) there is an amendment in the PLFSS on pensions, the CFDT, de facto, it comes out of the CNR and discussions on all subjects”, warned Laurent Berger on France Inter.

“Yes we will go out because there will be disloyalty”, insisted the boss of the first French union, denouncing in advance a “brutal measure” which would show a “form of contempt for the trade union organizations”.

The hypothesis of a forceps adoption

French President Emmanuel Macron promised during his campaign to raise the legal retirement age to 65.

The executive has not ruled out that the reform will be adopted quickly, via the PLFSS presented on September 26 in the Council of Ministers and then examined in Parliament.

A "dividing" decision that contradicts the "willingness to listen and openness" displayed by Emmanuel Macron within the framework of the CNR, Laurent Berger had already said last week.



The CFDT, which will not participate in the demonstration at the call of the CGT on September 29, is ready to join forces with the other trade union organizations on the subject of pensions: "If there is a passage through the PLFSS, the CFDT, with the other trade union organizations (…) we will react together (…) We will react by all the means which are those of the trade union movement”, he said.

The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt receives employers and unions on Monday for a “consultation meeting” on the question of pensions, “in order to discuss the conclusions of the Pensions Orientation Council”, which submitted its report this week.

“Tomorrow, the objective is to share an observation, because we must also create consensus and (…) a form of collective lucidity”, explained Olivier Dussopt on Sunday on France 3. The government will be the recipient “at the end of the week" of an "opinion of the pension monitoring committee, responsible for making proposals to the government to guarantee the balance of the pension system", he added.

The Minister did not rule out a measure in the PLFSS in October.

The passage of the measure to the Assembly, “it can be in October, as it can be in the spring.

(…) This is one of the possible procedures”, he said, specifying that he wanted to reserve the “first information” for the social partners.

“The objective is that the first elements of the reform can be implemented during 2023 because we have an urgency to act and above all to balance the system”, he underlined.

Pillar of the majority, the boss of the Modem François Bayrou warned on Saturday against a "forced passage on pensions" which would be the "opposite of the spirit of the CNR" which he chairs.

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