While the mobilization against the pension reform enters its 30th day, Edouard Philippe brings together members of the government in Matignon to "take stock", while discussions skate with the unions.
The ecological transition ministers Elisabeth Borne, Health Agnès Buzyn, and the Secretaries of State for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari and for pensions Laurent Pietraszewski were expected at 9:30 am this Friday by Edouard Philippe. The meeting had not been officially announced by Matignon who did not communicate an agenda during the holiday season.
"A quick compromise"
During his greetings to the French on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his determination to "carry out pension reform", while urging the government to "find a quick compromise". "We obviously hope (a way out of the crisis) and the government is hard at work to ensure that we can find the way to a rapid compromise, as desired by the President of the Republic", assured on France 2 government spokesperson Sibeth Ndiaye.
"The Prime Minister invited the social partners before going on vacation to a work calendar from Tuesday, January 7," recalled Sibeth Ndiaye and, according to her, "there is a lot to grind, a lot on the table today ”. "This work schedule is to work both on the way in which we plan the end of the professional career of individuals", "the amount of the minimum pension", "the way we organize the transitions between the different schemes and the universal regime "and" the subject of arduous work, how is it transcribed in the public service ", she detailed.
The spokesperson clarified that the criteria for obtaining the minimum pension "are part of the discussions we have today" and "even the amount of this minimum pension that we have set for our part at 85% of the net minimum wage can do the object of improvement ”.
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