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“The measures that the government should defend to promote the employment of seniors”

2024-03-28T18:27:05.411Z

Highlights: Deputies Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, Dominique Potier and Stéphane Viry. ‘The measures that the government should defend to promote the employment of seniors’ ‘Our activity rate for 60-64 year olds is half that of Germany or Finland' ‘Few unemployed people are unemployed of their own free will’‘The right place of seniors at work is a matter of common prosperity and an economic imperative’ ‘It is also about a social project where everyone has their place at all ages of life’


TRIBUNE - Rather than putting forward measures to respond urgently to the economic situation, the government should have a real ambition for the employment of seniors, argue deputies Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, Dominique Potier and Stéphane Viry.


*Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet is a Renaissance MP for Paris and a member of the Social Affairs Committee. Dominique Potier is a PS deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle and a member of the Economic Affairs Committee. Stéphane Viry is elected LR of Vosges and sits on the Social Affairs Committee.

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Our activity rate for 60-64 year olds is half that of Germany or Finland - a differential which explains a large part of our GDP per capita gap of 15% with these countries. However, the right place of seniors at work is a matter of common prosperity and an economic imperative - the financing of social protection and the state budget, in a context of sluggish growth and worrying debt rates. It is also about a social project where everyone has their place at all ages of life and where the future is not confiscated by the anxiety of downgrading.

Thinking about the employment of seniors means keeping three realities in mind. Few unemployed people are unemployed of their own free will…

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