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Jean-Paul Delevoye (d) presents the report of his commission on pension reform to Prime Minister Philippe Philippe at Hotel Matignon, Paris, on July 18, 2019. Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP

Several liberal professions, as well as flight crews of airline, call to protest this Monday, September 16 to defend their autonomous retirement plans.

At the call of the collective SOS Retraite, lawyers, doctors , nurses, physiotherapists, speech therapists and chiropodists, but also pilots, hostesses and stewards are expected to demonstrate in Paris on Monday, September 16 to defend the autonomous retirement plans on which they depend.

" Lawyers and the liberal professions as a whole benefit from what is called an autonomous regime, which should not be confused with special schemes, explains Xavier Autain, one of the initiators of the collective SOS Retraite. Since 1954, the lawyers have their own totally autonomous regime since we do not share it with other trades that allows us to have our own fund to us. "

Well-managed autonomous regimes

" This allows us to have a small war chest because it has been well managed and because we have an active / retired relationship that is in our favor," says the lawyer. And to serve a basic pension contribution higher than that of the general scheme . "

However, the lawyers deny any lack of solidarity with the rest of the population. " Our scheme pays 80 to 90 million euros annually to the general scheme, so there is solidarity, insists Xavier Autain. We do not really understand why we want to put ourselves in the general regime . "

The same goes for airline pilots and aircrew who also have an autonomous regime. " We are asking the government to maintain a legal and mandatory regime for aircrew," said Yves Deshayes, president of the SNPL, the union of pilots. This legal regime has reasons to exist on our particularities of age of retirement or particularities of insurance in the event of an air accident. Above all, it is a working plan that has been around for 70 years and has never cost the taxpayer anything . "

No question of returning contributions to the general scheme

For flight crews, there is no question of returning their contributions to the general scheme. According to Yves Deshayes, these contributions must above all benefit those who paid them. " We want the additional reserves of our scheme of five billion euros to benefit the people who have created them and we do not want these reserves to be paid into a general budget . "

While the pension reform wanted by Macron, has already triggered a strike on the scale RATP Friday, September 13, it is now the liberal professions that seem willing to give voice. Proof that this reform is freshly welcomed by a very wide fringe of different professions.