Barthélémy Philippe 6:03 a.m., January 23, 2023
This Monday, the retirement bill is presented to the Council of Ministers.
Beyond the central question of postponing the age, the unions, but also certain Republican deputies, denounce the fact that some French people will have to work more than 43 years to retire at the full rate.
Beyond the central question of postponing the legal age, another provision of the pension reform is causing tension.
While the bill is presented this Monday in the Council of Ministers, the unions but also some members of the Republicans denounce the contribution period of more than 43 years that some French people will have to observe in order to benefit from a full pension.
Workers who started working at the age of 20 are excluded from the early retirement scheme for long careers and will have to wait until the age of 64 to retire.
They will therefore contribute for 44 years, ie one year longer than the period required to benefit from a full pension.
Elisabeth Borne intends to remain inflexible
Unequal treatment that Mathieu Plane, an economist at the OFCE regrets: "It's still a problem because often the people concerned are low-income or middle-class workers who find themselves forced to work longer than executives who would have returned later to the labor market, and who themselves can liquidate their retirement earlier. For the sake of justice, the withdrawal of this point from the reform seems logical".
>>
READ ALSO
- Pension reform: why the MoDem proposes to touch the 35 hours?
At Les Républicains, whose majority needs to avoid a new 49-3, several deputies ask that the active people who started at 20 years old can retire as soon as their contribution period reaches 43 years.
But according to those around her, the Prime Minister intends to remain inflexible on this point.