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The government opened the door on Sunday to more "coercive" measures to promote the employment of seniors in companies, on the eve of presenting the pension reform to the Council of Ministers, which notably provides for a decline in the retirement age. leaving at age 64.

Could the executive strengthen its bill, in order to make it more restrictive in terms of employment of seniors?

"But why not," government spokesman Olivier Véran replied on BFMTV on Sunday.

"You know we're not on a coercive goal-blank line, we tend to trust people.

But if we have to put safeguards in place to ensure that seniors have their full place in the company…”, he continued.

The senior index does not convince the unions

"It's still strong coffee that France is a country in which we would not recognize people who have expertise, experience, know-how and want to work on this ability to assert it ", he added.

On Saturday evening, the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal for his part told Le

Parisien

that on this point the executive was "very open to proposals on incentives, retraining, and to look without taboo at coercive measures for companies. who wouldn't play the game.



In its project unveiled on January 10, the government is first betting on a "senior index" intended to change the behavior of companies, but which leaves the unions largely doubtful, while the employment rate for 55-64 year olds is 56% in France, below the European average (60.5%).

No sanctions foreseen for companies for the moment

This index "will make it possible to promote good practices and denounce bad ones", according to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne.

If the refusal to provide information will be sanctioned, no retaliation is planned for companies where the employment of seniors is not progressing, except for the reinforced obligation to negotiate a social agreement in order to improve the situation.

While the text must be presented Monday in the Council of Ministers, before arriving in the Assembly at the end of January, "it is precisely one of the aspects of the law on which we say: we are open to the proposals that parliamentarians could do,” insisted Olivier Véran.

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