After a new round of consultation on Friday January 10, the government has promised to present "concrete proposals" on Saturday to try to find a "compromise" on the financing of the pension system.
"Tomorrow, in writing, I will address to the trade union and employers' organizations concrete proposals which could be the basis (of) a compromise," said Edouard Philippe at the end of the day in the courtyard of Matignon, on the eve of a new day of demonstrations against his reform.
The Prime Minister, who received all day union and employer organizations to discuss the balance of the pension system, said that "this day of exchange has (had) given rise to very frank, very constructive discussions and I think very useful. "
The CFDT, the leading union in France, is in favor of the principle of a "universal" points scheme, but remains deflected by the pivotal age that the government wants to set in 2027 at 64 and add a bonus-penalty, in order to encourage the French to work longer.
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This age of balance is mentioned at least 39 times in the bill, transmitted late Thursday evening by the executive to the social partners. The text will be presented to the Council of Ministers on January 24, confirmed the head of government. The latter hopes to submit it for examination in public session at the National Assembly from February 17 so that it can be adopted before the summer.
Will the government go so far as to remove the age measure, the red line for all unions still mobilized after 37 days of conflict, but which would allow savings of 3 billion euros in 2022 and 12 billion in 2027 according to Matignon?
"It is a blind measure which has no place in the bill," said Laurent Berger, the boss of the CFDT, when he left, noting "a desire for openness" on the part of the Premier. Minister. According to Cyril Chabanier (CFTC), the head of government is "committed to making first announcements quickly" so as to be able to amend the text.
"Mobilization intact"
"We are going to have an announcement of sunset or suspension on the pivotal age while waiting for the social partners to agree on an alternative solution", predicted on Europe 1 Yves Veyrier (FO), estimating that it would not be not easy to agree on savings measures.
The pivotal age is in any case defended by the employers: "It is absolutely essential", pleaded to Matignon the boss of the Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.
The two bills of this reform - one organic, the other ordinary -, sent Thursday evening to the social security funds and of which AFP obtained a copy, etch in stone a rule "obliging" to provide for the financial equilibrium of the future "universal" pension system by points and the "equilibrium age".
This pivotal age will be gradually introduced from 2022, unless there is a different "deliberation" before September 2021 between the social partners sitting in the future national universal pension fund, which will be created on December 1, 2020.
These measures are not likely to coax the unions opposed to the reform as a whole, CGT and FO in mind, who told Matignon that their "mobilization remains intact". "We have reiterated our disagreement with the government's plan," soberly commented Philippe Martinez (CGT).
The day of interprofessional demonstrations gathered Thursday 452,000 people throughout France, according to the Ministry of the Interior, including 56,000 in the capital, a mobilization higher than that of December 10, but below those of 17 and especially of December 5, first day of the movement.
Hoping for "massive demonstrations" on Saturday throughout France, the intersyndicale called to continue the movement on Tuesday 14 with a "day of strike and interprofessional convergence". She also called for mobilizations Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 with "initiatives declined in all forms".
More subways this weekend
Several professions remained mobilized Friday, notably in Paris, where several hundred lawyers demonstrated at the courthouse, demanding the resignation of the Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet.
In two fiduciary centers of the Banque de France, in Île-de-France and in Hauts-de-France, which process more than a quarter of the country's banknotes, the CGT on Friday gave notice of a "renewable blocking" strike from from Monday 13.
SNCF traffic will remain disrupted this weekend with 80% of TGVs, one TER out of two and 40% of Transiliens, while all metro lines will be open during the day, according to RATP.
In the refinery sector, the call to stop fuel shipments was extended until January 16 inclusive, according to CGT Chimie.
The strike of EDF agents is renewed by 24-hour period, according to Sébastien Menesplier of the CGT energy federation, explaining that power cuts are made in the offices of deputies of the Republic on the move and the agents switch many customers off-peak rate.
With AFP
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