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Pension reform: unions await Castex with guns

2020-07-06T11:09:15.516Z


Barely back in the saddle, the pension reform is causing a stir. Neither the employers nor the employee unions want to take up the dis


The social partners raised a first eyebrow when they discovered on Thursday July 2 the interview given to the Parisian-Today in France by Emmanuel Macron. "There will be no abandonment of a pension reform," assured the head of state, saying however "open" to it "be transformed".

"We will not get back to fuck on the issue of pensions in this period," thundered the next day Laurent Berger, number one of the CFDT, yet one of the few to support a universal system, thorny reform adopted thanks to 49-3 in early March and suspended sine die by Emmanuel Macron in mid-March due to the confinement of the French.

"It's not at all the moment"

This Sunday, the new Prime Minister, Jean Castex, has once again made the social partners jump, indicating to the JDD his will to settle “in the short term” the pension file. In line with Emmanuel Macron, who spoke of the need to tackle “from the summer the aspect of financial equilibrium”, he explained that “the crisis has greatly aggravated the deficit in our pension plans”…

"It is not at all the moment, the urgency it is the employment", estimates Yves Veyrier, number of Force Ouvrière (FO), recalling that his position did not vary. "I refuse to give the future government all the parameters of the pension system when it wants to go to the economy. Then, the point system will not be fairer for the insecure, "insists the FO leader, that Jean Castex's first words visibly do not impress.

"Social negotiation, he can do very well"

“We cannot say social dialogue and ignore all organizations! The five employee organizations, the three employers all say that this is not the time, ”tackle Yves Veyrier. In fact, the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux also called on Saturday to "press pause for a few months".

Faced with this outcry, Jean Castex will have to find his old reflexes. “Social negotiation, he can do very well. He has a real taste and a talent for it because he likes to talk with people. His characteristic was to be personally involved in the discussions, "said Raymond Soubie, who saw him work as chief of staff at the Ministry of Labor and had given his name to replace him as social advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy. In 2006-2007, Castex took care of “making the retirement from special plans move for the first time”, he remembers…

Source: leparis

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