The new Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, indicated on Tuesday that dialogue would resume " soon " on pension reform and that of unemployment insurance, during the handover with Muriel Pénicaud. She announces that the retirement file is moving from the fold of the Ministry of Health to that of Labor.
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" Among the major projects of the coming months is also the question of pension reform and unemployment insurance, on which dialogue will resume soon with the social partners, " said Ms. Borne.
The new Prime Minister, Jean Castex, indicated this weekend that he intended to settle “in the short term” the file of the retirements, with, “ a minima, a new social agenda ”. He will receive the social partners from Wednesday.
“ We all know that economic activity will not return to its pre-crisis level. The President of the Republic said it, going back to school will be difficult, so we have to roll up our sleeves, "said Ms. Borne. " On the sharing of value, we must go beyond the Covenant law ," she also added.
Before speaking, Muriel Pénicaud, who has just spent three years at the Ministry of Labor, listed " his key reforms ": work orders, " the successful learning revolution ", " the emancipatory power of the Mon application training account ”,“ the strength of the gender equality index ”,“ the massive shield of partial unemployment ”. " We have helped to bring unemployment down to below 8%, " she said.
A new minister for a new pension reform?
By appointing Élisabeth Borne as head of the Ministry of Labor, Emmanuel Macron and his new Prime Minister Jean Castex instructed the former Minister of Ecology to carry out the pension reform, dear to the Head of State, who seemed hitherto compromised due to the Covid-19 crisis.
In an interview with the regional press on July 2, he assured that there would be " no abandonment of a pension reform ". "Should pension reform be thrown away?" No. It would be a mistake, ” he explained then. He had also suggested that he was in favor of extending the duration of contributions, a parameter that had so far been ruled out. "This reform cannot be resumed unchanged at the end of the crisis, but the question of the number of years during which we contribute remains raised," he said. "We cannot be a country that wants independence, social, economic and environmental recovery and be one of the countries where we work the least throughout life in Europe" .
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On the other hand, when asked whether or not to maintain the pivotal age at 64, dear to his ex-Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, he replied at the time: "I am open to the fact that (the reform) will be transformed" .
