A procession of a dozen liberal professions will march in the streets of Paris on Monday, to protest against a sharp increase in their contribution rate induced by the pension reform.

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After the RATP agents Friday, the government sees a new front against the pension reform: nearly a dozen professions (lawyers, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, drivers, hostesses, stewards) will gather in several cities Monday.

In Paris, an event is planned at the beginning of the afternoon between Opera and Nation, on the main boulevards of the capital. All of these professions do not want to see their self-contained pension plans blend into the universal point system promised by Emmanuel Macron.

A contribution rate that goes up to 28%

"Our regime has been autonomous for 60 years," say lawyers. "We were able to take the courageous measures to ensure balance, without ever asking the taxpayer a dime". This autonomous regime, the lawyers want to keep it. Except that it is one of the famous 42 regimes that the reform wants to make disappear to create the unique regime which will gather all the assets (employees, civil servants, independent and the liberal professions).

In practice, the liberal professions are protesting against the doubling of their contribution rate, at least on the first 40,000 euros earned in the year, in the name of the planned convergence of plans: it will no longer be 14%, but 28% . According to the lawyers, but also the nurses and the physiotherapists, that puts in danger their cabinets.

Young lawyers very dissatisfied

For lawyers, "what does not happen is that we had an autonomous regime that worked very well," regrets Jerome Dirou, president of Bordeaux. "He was perfectly balanced, with many young lawyers and an extremely late retirement age: lawyers plead very late and contribute for a very long time."

" In the new regime, we will have to work less, retire at a younger age, and therefore contribute more "

"In the new regime, we will have to work less, retire at a younger age, and therefore contribute more," he continues. "Some young lawyers will see a 70% increase in their contribution for a minimum pension cut of almost 400 euros, which does not happen."

What is the government's attitude to this sling? He is obviously not insensitive to the argument: before the social partners, last Thursday, Édouard Philippe promised to look very quickly on "these professions strongly impacted by the reform".