The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, said, Tuesday, May 24, that the new government set itself “the objective” of July, whose pensions are paid on August 9 for the general regime.
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The calendar begins to clarify. The new Minister of Labor, Integration and full employment, Olivier Dussopt, said on Tuesday May 24 at the microphone of RTL, that the government was “objective” an indexing of retirement pensions on inflation ” valid from the retirement of July “.
“What we want is that this indexing on inflation is valid for pensions in July, as soon as the [pensions of] pensions in July. I specify, for example, that In the case of the general scheme, retirement in July is paid on August 9, and therefore it is our objective that indexing comes into force on this date, “he said. During his presidential campaign, Emmanuel Macron had announced an exceptional revaluation of basic pensions at 1 er uillet, to deal with the increase in prices.
This measure is part of the purchasing power law that the government intends to have voted in the Parliament, the day after the legislative elections, as Mr. Dussopt said on Tuesday. The revaluation would represent, “if we take into account an inflation at 4 %, for a pension at 1,200 euros, a gain of 45 euros per month”. “It is not negligible and it allows to face inflation,” said Mr. Dussopt.
a “still under construction” on pension reform
Regarding the pension reform, for which he is responsible, the new Minister of Labor assured that “the calendar is still under construction”. “We will register the calendar of this reform and consultation in the government’s action plan. The President of the Republic gave us a month to develop it,” he said on RTL, considering that they cannot “Pre-empt a date even though the calendar is under construction”.
“We must first start with consultation and dialogue”, “is the method that has been stopped, and today I am starting to meet the social partners, not only” on pensions, But also on “a thousand subjects” – training, occupational health or even purchasing power, said Olivier Dussopt. But however he set a CAP in the fall, for the start of the consultation on pensions, saying: “I think we can start this in September [or] in October.”
To justify the need for this reform, despite the opposition of unions and the pension orientation council (Cor), Mr. Dussopt argued that the “same orientation council of pensions says that between This year and 2027-2028, the average deficit in pension plans will be between 9 billion and 11 billion euros. “” For me, it is a financial problem and the guidance council says that this deficit will go around 16 billions in 2032. So there is a need to regain balance. This is the subject of the search for a consensus, “he continued. Sunday, Elisabeth Borne also defended the postponement of the retirement age at 64 or 65, in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche (Le JDD),
With this argument, the Minister of full employment took the opportunity to criticize the retirement project at 60 proposed by the new Ecological and Social People’s People’s Union (Nuts): “I hear Mélenchon defend” retirement At 60 “: without moving the number of annuities, it does not hold. And, in addition, it does not hold financially either. We cannot promise people a retirement at 60 with 42 annuities.” “That means that everyone would work far beyond or [that their retirement] would be strongly discussed. And one cannot promise a reform that would cost 50 billion euros per year, “he said.