It is an essential prerequisite for any pension reform: managing the subject of seniors (55-64 years), or 4.8 million assets.
Half of them are no longer in employment when they retire… but are unemployed, on disability, on social minima, etc.
The unions thus have it easy to deem it impossible to postpone the retirement age to 65 and to affirm that the savings made by the pension funds will be paid by the Health insurance or Pôle emploi, in a game of bonneteau zero-sum.
The employment rate for seniors reached 54% at the end of 2019. But it collapses from the age of 60, well below the level of other European countries: only 34% of 60-64 year olds work in France, compared to 56% in the UK and 63% in Germany.
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