The government is willing to “modify” and “improve” its pension reform during the debate in the Senate, as well as to “listen” to the proposals of the majority right in the upper house, assured Thursday its spokesman Olivier Véran.
Asked about France Inter, he made “the observation” that the Les Républicains party in the Senate has “already voted for several consecutive years” “provisions which look darn similar” to the current government project to postpone the legal age from 62 to 64. departure. “So we consider that the basis of an agreement is on the table,” he added.
“Then, we are listening to the senators, as we have been listening to the deputies, also ready to amend, modify, improve our text”, assured Olivier Véran while the reform, which did not been able to be voted on at first reading in the Assembly within the short deadlines set by the executive, arrives next week in the Senate.
The spokesperson took the example of the index supposed to promote the employment of seniors in companies, rejected in the Assembly with the unfavorable voices of LR in particular, but which the government wants to reintroduce before the senators.
“I consider that the senators have a vocation to move in the direction of improving the employment of seniors in the company and if they have proposals to make, which start from the senior index or which are different, we will listen to them. of course,” he explained. Some senators of the majority made up of the right and centrists in the upper house want to propose a bonus/malus system to promote the employment of seniors.
