The tension rose another notch on Monday between the executive and the opposition on this flagship reform of this start of the five-year term, again deemed "indispensable" by Emmanuel Macron on the eve of a new day of mobilization.
"We can be proud to defend this pillar of our social model", declared, according to participants, the Prime Minister, present at the executive office of the presidential party.
"We ask for effort. If being losers is about working, in the end they are winners since we save the system. But we are careful not to ask the same effort from everyone", insisted Miss Borne.
In front of the executives of the presidential party, the head of government also deemed it "important to mobilize us both by defending our project and by not letting untruths spread".
"No, we will not leave tomorrow at 64. The age difference is gradual. No, this reform does not penalize women," she insisted.
She also mentioned "a relationship with work which questions us and which we must tackle", judging "it is important that our deputies make proposals on these questions which will be covered in the current bill and in other texts, on full employment for example" which is to be presented in the spring by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt.
On the Renaissance side, the MEP Pascal Canfin and the deputy Sacha Houlié, president of the Law Commission, have formulated proposals relating in particular to gradual retirement or an extension of the senior index to companies with more than fifty employees.
The pension reform currently under discussion provides, for companies with more than 300 employees, the creation of a senior index, with penalties in the event of non-publication up to 1% of the payroll.
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