Paris (AFP)
Medef president Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux on Friday urged the government to clarify its intentions on pension reform, saying it was time to move out of uncertainty.
"The government must somehow say where it is going," said the microphone of France Info the president of the first French employers' organization, because "one of the reasons for the current climate, are the uncertainties that have lasted since the delivery of the Delevoye report "in July.
"I think there is a moment when we must get out of the ambiguity", "the government must tell us what it wants to do," insisted Mr. Roux de Bézieux.
Faced with the opposition front to the government project that expanded to two weeks of a potentially massive and long-lasting strike in transport, the boss of bosses said about the reform that "everyone is against without knowing what's inside ".
The Medef calls for a return of the pension system to the equilibrium by an extension of working hours before the transition to a universal system by points and the elimination of special schemes.
But Mr. Roux de Bézieux acknowledged that "in companies, we have a lot of work to do because it's true, after 60 years, we do not employ enough people, we do not keep enough people in employment ".
He reiterated that his organization was in favor of a "pivotal age" below which there would be a discount on the pension. "We no longer ask for the change of the legal age," he said.
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