2023-11-22 13:11:45
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 2 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago
The president of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP
For Cyril Chabanier, the delay taken by the government in terms of employment for seniors risks reviving the pension conflict.
Pension reform back on the table? The president of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier, highlighted on Wednesday the urgency to resolve the subject of senior employment to “avoid” another pension reform being on the menu of the next presidential campaign. “If we don’t resolve this, in 2027 we still have a campaign with another pension reform,” said the union leader during a meeting with the Association of Social Information Journalists (Ajis), while Negotiations must begin on the employment of seniors. “If we want to avoid yet another parametric reform (of pensions), the solution is to regulate the employment of seniors” in particular, he insisted, considering that this project is one of those which are “super urgent” .
The government sent the “guidance document” to the social partners on Tuesday which should serve as a basis for discussions on this subject, with the objective of “achieving full employment for seniors”. Concretely, this involves moving to an employment rate for 60-64 year olds of 65% “by 2030” (compared to 36.2% in 2022, i.e. -12.3 points compared to the European average ). These objectives “are very, very ambitious”, estimated Cyril Chabanier, judging that we must already start by “catching up with our European colleagues”, which would bring billions into the coffers.
The union leader, re-elected last week for a second term, notably warned that his union “will not go” on the theme of essentially saying “get yourself a cheap senior”, with exemptions from social contributions “to death” for companies. If he judged that the orientation document leaves the social partners “fairly free”, Cyril Chabanier noted that the framework is “more constrained” concerning one of the other themes, the creation of a universal time savings account (Cetu) .
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While for the government, the new account is not intended to “crush” the CET (Time Savings Account) already set up by certain companies, the CFTC manager pleaded to think regarding “a single system” allowing the retention of days acquired throughout the career, even when changing companies, “to be able to go into progressive retirement, to make cuts…”. As for the third theme, which concerns in particular professional wear and tear, he noted that “it’s complicated for everyone” with employers saying that “no job is difficult” and on the other union activists who want to put “100% of the professions” under this label.
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