Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labour, has argued that the pension reform will be beneficial for women, because the age at which the discount will be abolished will not be changed, the minimum pension will be increased, or parental leave better included in the count of the quarters.
Women are more likely than men to have to wait until the age of abolition of the discount to be able to receive a full pension.
Raising the retirement age to 64 will cancel out for some women the years gained through the birth of their children.
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This is what MP LFI Marianne Maximi said on Tuesday, during the session of questions to the government at the National Assembly.
Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labour, defended himself, highlighting three points of the reform: "Women will be better protected, because we are not pushing back the age of abolition of the discount", a- he first advanced.
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“Employees, retirees will experience the best improvement in their retirement thanks to this reform.
[…] This reform will protect the most vulnerable and will protect women.
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— Olivier Dussopt (@olivierdussopt) January 17, 2023
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"Better protected because the application of the minimum pension will protect more, will benefit women more than men," he continued.
Better protected too, since we are going to include in the eligibility for the minimum pension, in the long career system, the quarters which are contributed under old-age insurance and therefore parental leave.
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Not pushing back the age at which the haircut ends means that the situation simply remains the same.
Women who have not validated the necessary number of quarters to leave before age 67 will therefore continue to leave at age 67.
There is no retreat from this age, but no advance either.
According to INSEE, 19% of women born in 1950 had to wait until they were 65 and 66 to retire, in order to avoid a discount.
Only 10% of men were in the same situation.
Olivier Dussopt then highlighted the modification of the minimum pension.
The government provides that the minimum pension for a career carried out at the minimum wage increases by 100 euros per month.
This minimum will be equivalent to 85% of the net minimum wage.
To benefit from it, it will be necessary to have a complete career and not a career which has known periods of interruption.
As for integrating the quarters contributed during parental leave, this would benefit 3,000 women per year, according to government calculations - i.e. 0.80% of women who retired in 2019. People on parental leave, the majority of women, can already accumulate quarters, under certain conditions, in particular of resources.
Currently, these quarters acquired as parental leave cannot be combined with the quarters acquired for the birth of a child.
With the postponement of the retirement age, women will lose this benefit of quarters acquired for the birth of a child.
Women born after 1967 will not be able to leave before the age of 64, unless they started working before the age of 20 or benefit from other protective measures.
Thus, an employee born in 1968, who had her first job at 21, will have to contribute 172 quarters, or 43 years, which will take her up to 64, the new legal retirement age.
If she had two children (which represents the average fertility rate of this generation), she could have left at 62 under current conditions, thanks to these trimesters.
An element that is not put forward by the government.
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