We must "press pause" on the subject of pension reform, while safeguarding employment and business competitiveness is the priority in times of coronavirus, estimated on Saturday the president of Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux. "We have to press pause for a few months so that we put all our energy into what matters, that is to say the production tool," said Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux during a debate with the general secretary of the CFDT Laurent Berger at the Aix-en-Seine Economic Meetings. "It's a break to resume, not a break forever," he said.
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Laurent Berger, who had already denounced Friday the will of Emmanuel Macron to relaunch this summer the "consultation" on the financial balances of the pension system, for his part noted Saturday "such opposition in our country on this subject that we have no interest in putting ourselves on the figure at the start of the school year or during the summer on the subject ".
Reservations on a universal point system
For the president of Medef, "if we have managed to save jobs, if we do not have the million (additional) unemployed people that everyone promises us at the end of the year, we can leave." "And there then yes, we will have to discuss pensions because there is this universal system project, but there is also a huge financial hole," he added.
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Geoffroy de Roux de Bézieux also reiterated his reservations about a universal points system wanted by Laurent Berger. The universal system, "as we start from a very complicated system, it's good on Powerpoint", but "I find that it doesn't work," he said. In an interview with the regional daily press published Thursday evening, Emmanuel Macron affirmed that "there would (would be) no abandonment" of his project of universal system, which he always judges "just", even if he says he is "open" to his reform "being transformed".