Paris (AFP)

The 4.3 million public officials (for 1.2 million contract workers), in the three sides of the public service (State, hospital, territorial) should, at the end of the reform, see their retirement calculated on the their entire career and no longer over the past six months.

This rule would be less favorable to them, in particular to teachers whose Prime Minister Edouard Philippe himself recognized in early December that "the absurd application of the new rules would penalize them".

According to Gilles Oberrieder (CGT), "a teacher at the end of his career who now receives a retirement pension of around 2,500 euros" would therefore receive "around 1,700 euros".

This pension specialist also calculated that "a category C agent (the lowest paid) who earns today between 1,300 and 1,600 euros monthly, would receive a pension of barely 1,000 euros".

On average, he adds, civil servants would go from an average retirement of "70% of the end of career salary to a retirement corresponding to 70% of the average career salary", taking into account the lowest paid years . This would cause a substantial loss of income, which he figures "between 20 and 30%".

With the new universal points system that the government wants to introduce from 2025, premiums should however be taken into account in calculating retirement.

Currently, if civil servants contribute 11% to their own integrated scheme, this contribution does not relate to bonuses, which constitute a significant part of the remuneration for those who benefit from it. They can even reach "50% of income for certain civil servants at the end of their careers", according to the Secretary of State responsible for the public service, Olivier Dussopt.

Problems: hundreds of thousands of agents, including teachers and territorial agents (the vast majority of whom are part-time), two categories which represent a total of 1.89 million people, benefit little or very little. The latter therefore risk being doubly injured. The government has, however, accepted the principle of a salary increase for teachers and researchers. Negotiations have started this week on pensions, which should lead to a law on programming revaluations.

The future reform also plans to extend the hardship account to civil servants, in return for the abolition of early departures from certain "active" categories, which the government confirmed on January 8: hundreds of thousands of agents will see their legal age pass. from 57 to 62 years old, in particular nursing assistants from public hospitals, with the exception of "uniformed duties" (police, firefighters, customs officers, prison officers, etc.).

Progressive retirement (cumulation of part-time and part of the retirement pension) for civil servants must also be discussed, in particular for teachers and hospital staff. A specific project was to be launched this week on the arduousness and adjustment of the end of career in the hospital.

Another must relate to the calculation of the rights acquired at the time of the switch between the current system and the universal regime in 2025. The Prime Minister promised to maintain the rule of the last six months to convert the quarters paid into points.

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