"We French people now know that our model is deadly."
This is what an observer of our recurring debates around retirement might say.
Not that the reform proposed by the government is free from criticism.
Having defended the systemic change inspired by the Scandinavians (retirement on points), I cannot but find a simple raising of the legal age frustrating.
And even by stopping there, there would be a fairer way of doing things: for example, by removing the reductions in charges above 2.5 times the minimum wage, which have no impact on employment, to finance the improvement of the long and arduous career system.
Unskilled, manual workers, who started out young, in strenuous occupations, do not have to pay a high price.
But anyway, all the same, the nature of the exchanges around…
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