Towards new national strikes against pension reform?

The latter is becoming more and more concrete as the head of government reveals the first measures it will contain in an interview with Le

Parisien

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The official announcement is scheduled for December 15 and Elisabeth Borne promises that it will be presented “before the Christmas holidays, as planned”.

Nothing is yet set in stone since discussions with trade unions and employers' organizations have not yet taken place.

Starting age at 65

A few leads are however revealed or confirmed, in particular a retirement age postponed to 65 years.

“The commitment made in the campaign” is 65 years old, explains the Prime Minister, with a “gradual postponement of the retirement age from 62 to 65 years old by 2031”.

However, “if there is another path proposed by the trade unions and employers' organizations which makes it possible to achieve the same result, we will study it, says Elisabeth Borne.

Can we talk.

“In addition, the government has “decided not to increase the age of cancellation of the discount, which will remain at 67 years.

“As for the system of” long careers “, “allowing you to leave two or four years before the legal retirement age”, “it will be maintained”, she adds.

Emphasis on retirement employment

Elisabeth Borne also announces that she wants to promote the work of retirees.

“Today, working retirees are subject to contributions without additional pension rights being open to them.

We are going to change this to improve the amount of retirement and encourage work.

We are also going to simplify and make the progressive retirement system more attractive to encourage part-time workers at the end of their careers.

We are ready to extend this system to the public service, ”she explains.

The civil service concerned

The police had been among the strikers in 2019, when an unprecedented protest movement against the pension reform had lasted several months before the Covid-19 took with it the bill brought by the government.

Asked whether police officers will also be subject to a postponement of their retirement, the Prime Minister replies daily that "if we have to work one year, two years or three more years, it will concern all professional categories. but the reform will not be uniform, the initial situations will be taken into account.

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In addition, “the new recruits from the special schemes will be affiliated to the general old-age insurance scheme”, and this concerns in particular the Banque de France, the RATP or even the employees of the Electric and Gas Industries (IEG).

A minimum of 1,200 euros

The minimum pension for full careers will be equivalent to 85% of the minimum wage.

Knowing that the latter increases, slightly, automatically with inflation, the minimum will be "1,200 euros at the time of retirement for a person who has all his quarters", according to Elisabeth Borne.

For summer 2023

According to the government's wishes, the reform should be implemented from the summer of 2023 and will then concern the "generation born in the second half of 1961", specifies the Prime Minister.

These will have to work “a few more months”, she nuances, because this reform will be done early but gradually.

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