Pension reform: Olivier Dussopt closes the door to LR senators on special schemes

Europe 1 with AFP 3 p.m., March 2, 2023

Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt definitively closed the door on Thursday to requests from LR senators on special pension schemes, which the government intends to abolish, without however touching the "grandfather clause".

"Returning to the grandfather clause is not what the government wants. We have said from the start that we want to respect the social contract," said Olivier Dussopt on RTL, clarifying his position after appearing to open the door. Sunday to the possibility of accelerating the end of special diets.

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The minister who is beginning the examination of the reform in the Senate confirms the position expressed on Wednesday by government spokesman Olivier Véran who had affirmed that the government wanted to abolish the special regimes but only for future recruits.

Hiring from September 2023 concerned

The government's plan provides for the cessation of these special schemes only for new hires from September 1, 2023. The employees concerned (electricity and gas industries, RATP, Banque de France, etc.) already in office retain their benefits, in accordance to reform.

Olivier Dussopt also showed himself "reserved" on the proposal of the senatorial majority (LR and centrists) to create a new type of CDI, on the model of "construction contracts", to encourage the hiring of unemployed people from over 60 years old.

Towards a premium for mothers?

"We are a little more reserved on this subject, because with the Prime Minister we did not initially consider that exemptions from contributions were the best way to employ seniors", explained the minister, without however expressing frank opposition to this idea.

He thus deemed it "important" that the Senate proposes to submit this innovation to prior consultation with the social partners.

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Olivier Dussopt also considered that a proposal from the senatorial majority to introduce a premium for mothers was going "in the right direction".

"The will of the government is to support this provision", he said, because it allows women who have had a "chopped career" to "avoid the discount", and those who have had a full career of obtain a "surcharge" and to ensure that the quarters earned in respect of maternity have not been granted to them for nothing.