"
We are open to compromise between the senatorial majority [...] and the presidential majority
", launched Thursday Gabriel Attal, the Minister of Public Accounts, at the opening of the debates on the pension reform, in the Senate.
Enough to leave some room for maneuver in the upper house and this in particular on the aspect of the employment of seniors, where the proposals of the executive are struggling to convince.
Faced with this space, elected officials have already put forward several avenues for improvement.
Le Figaro
takes stock.
An “
end-of-career contract
” for job retention
For unemployed seniors, the rapporteurs of the Senate's Social Affairs Committee propose the creation of a senior CDI.
This “
end-of-career contract
” would be open to employees aged at least 60.
It would include an exemption from family contributions (between 3.45% and 5.25%) to compensate for the cost of a senior employee, who because of his experience, is higher to bear.
Thanks to such a system, the employer will be able to terminate the employee's contract as soon as the latter fulfills the conditions to benefit from a full pension.
The employer will therefore not be required to keep the employee until he is 70 years old, the cut-off age which today represents a brake on the hiring of seniors.
The government is not particularly enthusiastic about this proposal.
"
We are a little more reserved on this subject
," said the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, this Thursday, March 2, 2023 on RTL.
He specifies that "
the creation of this new type of contract would come after a consultation with the trade unions and employers' organisations, [...] because it comes under the Labor Code
".
A senior index for companies with more than 300 employees
The government text provides for the creation of a “
senior index
” in companies to “
promote good practices and denounce bad ones
”.
They will have to collect data on their employees aged 55 and over and make it public.
A financial penalty "
of up to 1% of their payroll
" will be applied in the event of refusal to publish.
If the deputies decided to include companies with 50 employees and more, the rapporteurs of the Senate propose to concentrate the device only on those of more than 300 employees.
"
We are very hostile to the extension to SMEs.
Because we consider that a statistic on a small number has no meaning.
For it to be significant, you need a significant number
, ”says Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate.
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Progressive retirement maintained at age 60
The text's rapporteurs also propose maintaining the age of eligibility for gradual retirement at 60, which the government wishes to raise to 62.
Elected officials believe that this development approved by the National Assembly could intensify the use of contractual terminations.
Hence the desire not to touch this device which makes it possible to guarantee a better retirement thanks to the establishment of a decreasing level of activity.
This partial maintenance also meets the “
needs of transmitting knowledge to the youngest
,” adds Senator Élisabeth Doineau.