The government is once again bringing together the social partners to talk about one of the most explosive files of the five-year term.
This Monday morning, at 9 a.m., the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, will receive these actors during a "
consultation meeting on our pension system
", we learned from rue de Grenelle.
The opportunity also to examine the conclusions of the Pensions Orientation Council (COR), published at the end of last week.
Invited to Sunday in Politics on France 3, the minister explained that this meeting was primarily aimed at building a consensus around the COR report.
"
Everyone has an interpretation that can be their own
," acknowledged Olivier Dussopt, adding to expect discussions on the assumptions made by the experts to make their calculations.
In addition, the executive wishes to take advantage of this meeting to determine which social partners "
share the same desire
" to transform the pension system.
Improving the pension system will however have to go through measures to ensure the viability of the whole, he warned: "
I hear all the requests [...] but I also expect proposals
", nuanced the member of the government.
The minister, who is awaiting the publication of an "
opinion of the pension monitoring committee
" at the end of next week, also confirmed that the notion of a pivotal age, central to the systemic reform carried out by Edouard Philippe, had been abandoned.
However, he remained vague on the precise parameters towards which the Élysée wishes to progress, contenting himself with recalling that retirement at 65 was not a “
totem
”.
An amendment to the PLFSS would lead to "
frontal opposition
" from the CFDT
A few hours earlier, the High Commissioner for Planning, François Bayrou, issued a formal warning to the executive in an interview published by
Le Parisien
.
“
I am opposed to the passage in force.
If we embark on this path, then we are sure to first unite the oppositions between them, then to divide French society,
”warned the close friend of Emmanuel Macron, questioned about the possibility of modifying pensions. via an amendment to the social security budget (PLFSS), this fall.
“
I happen to be the one carrying out this reform.
[...] Today, all the hypotheses are open and on the table
", replied Olivier Dussopt, adding that an amendment was "
part of the possible procedures
".
There is no doubt that the filing of an amendment would trigger a torrent of reactions: the oppositions and all the trade unions are upwind against this track.
Even within the reformist CFDT, the hypothesis makes people jump: “
If they decide to go through the PLFSS, we will be in frontal opposition
”, hammered the boss of the union, Laurent Berger, on Sunday.
“
The CFDT will be upwind and in opposition.
[…] We will oppose it by all means”
, he then hammered, adding that his organization would also leave the National Council for Refoundation (CNR), in this hypothesis.
The executive is notified.