While tensions are particularly strong on the pension reform project, elected officials have at least managed to agree on one point.

Parliament indeed definitively adopted on Wednesday evening, by a final unanimous vote of the Senate, a LR bill allowing the pensions of self-employed farmers to be raised, a reform long awaited by the agricultural world.

The text of deputy Julien Dive had been voted unanimously by the National Assembly in early December.

The senators therefore also voted for it, without modifications, confirming its final adoption.

The heads of operations and the "collaborating spouses" concerned

It provides, from 2026, "to extend to non-salaried agricultural workers", in particular farm managers and "collaborating spouses", "the calculation of the basic pension on the only twenty-five best years", and no longer over their entire career.

“The method of calculating the pensions of our farmers is particularly illegible”, underlined the rapporteur for the text in the Senate, Pascale Gruny (LR).

The Social Affairs Committee, for its part, considered that the text was not "perfect", but "fully aware of the symbolic importance of this great mark of national support for these women and men to whom we are all indebted, deemed it preferable to secure the advances won after a hard fight".

Retired farm managers receive an average of 1,079 euros gross for a full career (excluding reversion), according to elements of the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA).

This reform constitutes, according to the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, “a new step in terms of equality and recognition of farmers”.

On this consensual subject, two laws called Chassaigne 1 and 2 had already been passed unanimously in 2020 and 2021. Promulgated in July 2020, the "Chassaigne law" - named after the deputy and leader of the communist group in the National Assembly André Chassaigne - had raised the pensions of former farm managers to a floor level of 85% of the net minimum wage.

A second text presented by this same deputy had made it possible to raise the small pensions of the collaborating spouses of farmers in 2021.

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