The retirement age will be raised gradually by 3 months each year and will be 64 in 2030: this was announced by the French Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, summing up the reform bill that the government intends to get approved by Parliament despite strong opposition of the trade unions, of the left and of 70% of public opinion.
Among Prime Minister Borne's announcements, "the end of a large part of the special regimes, as a matter of equity", one of the main reasons that in the past has provoked the hard protest in particular by the cheminot, the railway workers, who together with the personnel of the public means of transport have always benefited from a special pension scheme.
Among other measures, the possibility of early retirement and obtaining an early pension, which will remain possible, according to Borne, for 4 out of 10 workers. Furthermore, the health prevention device for strenuous jobs will be strengthened also with the creation of a fund investment of one billion euros.