It was yes at the start of the quinquennium. And now no. Laurent Berger, who was nevertheless asking for it, no longer wants to hear about the pension reform. The priority of the moment is recovery, social cohesion
, he said yesterday morning on Europe 1.
The general secretary of the CFDT valued that there is no time to work seriously on it so that it happens without tension … except to want a social explosion
, he added.
Passes of arms
There is no subject more mined. Including within the government where the reform has just been the subject of a series of passes. In the name of the balance of accounts, Bruno Le Maire wants to make it top priority
as he pointed out in an interview in The Parisian Sunday November 29.
An opinion far from being shared by Élisabeth Borne, the Minister of Labor in charge of this file. The absolute priority is to get out of the economic and social health crisis, to protect jobs, this is the unanimous opinion of the social partners.
, she replied the same day in Sunday in politics sure France 3.
Insurmountable challenge
Will the pension reform go to the end? After several weeks of strike, the government had chosen, at the beginning of the year, to pass in force by passing two bills.
The first creates a single points system intended to replace the 42 existing regimes in the long term. The second provides for a golden rule with a pension plan that must be balanced over five years. An insurmountable challenge in the current state, if we are to believe the report of the Retirement Orientation Council (Cor) released November 26.
The health crisis has significantly worsened the financial outlook
, he recalls. In 2020, the Covid cost pension plans 23.5 billion euros. Who will pay ?
Arbitration of the Élysée
“Public debt is the backpack that we pass on to the younger generations”
, insists on his side François Villeroy de Galhau, the governor of the Bank of France. But the success of a reform is also a matter of timing. Growth is stalled, the majority fractured.
It will be up to the Élysée to make arbitrations. All are linked to the conditions under which growth will resume – or not – and to the social climate. A high-risk case a few months before the presidential elections.
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