INTERVIEW
France expects a day lasts December 5, while several unions in transport, including the SNCF and the RATP, calls for a strike against the pension reform. "There will be a lot of mobilization on the 5th, for sure," acknowledged Sunday, at the microphone of the Grand Rendez-vous on Europe 1, Muriel Pénicaud, the Minister of Labor.
Anticipating the difficulties in trains and subways that day, this government official therefore asks employers to be lenient with employees who might be prevented from going to their place of work. "Do not ask people to do acrobatics, spend four or six hours in transport, I ask employers to be understanding about it," she says. "And remember that" since the work orders, telework is a right. "" There are forms of remote work, do not ask people, that day, to do the impossible, "says Muriel Penicaud.
"In any reform there is anxiety and you have to hear it"
Regarding the mobilization itself, the minister wants to remind that the reform has not yet been presented. "The object of the mobilization of 5 is not the pension reform, since we have not announced it yet," she denounces. "There are people who are anxious, in any reform there is an anxiety and it must be heard", nevertheless concedes the minister. "It is normal that the pension reform is the one that creates the most actions [since the beginning of the five-year period, note ], because it concerns both young people who are 20 years old and assets. very long-term reform creates questions, "she concludes.