Edouard Philippe, Agnès Buzyn and Jean-Paul Delevoye completed Friday evening their consultation of social partners on pension reform. To his interlocutors, the Prime Minister gave no indication on the method and the schedule that the government will apply in the second sequence which opens now, after the delivery of the report of Jean-Paul Delevoye this summer. The announcements, especially on the calendar, will be made in the middle of next week. But to implement this highly sensitive reform, the executive seems determined to give itself time.
If there are major disagreements between them on the substance of the reform, all the social partners are on this point: the presentation of a bill will not take place by the end of the year. It was the schedule that was not so long ago by the government. "I felt that the calendar was loose, that we wanted to give ourselves time to discuss, we are on a reform that will not come into effect until 2025. Is it wasting time to give oneself one or two months? more? ", noted CFTC President Philippe Louis at the end of his meeting with Edouard Philippe.
Not before summer 2020
One or two more months? François Asselin, president of the CPME, even thinks that this delay is a little reductive considering the magnitude of the task, and especially with the arrival of the municipal ones. "Systemic reforms such as these do not always mix with the electoral calendar," he points to Europe 1. "If next summer we come to a bill tabled in the National Assembly and in the Senate, it will already be a great performance. "
The president of the CFE-CGC François Homméril makes the same analysis, but in a more visual way. "Christmas will be long when we have a project on the table, I think when we meet again to talk about it, it will be sweet again," he predicts. For information, Friday, at the end of consultations, the mercury showed ... 23 degrees!