Pensions of civil servants: current calculation rules should be maintained

The Minister of Public Service, Stanislas Guerini, indicated that the basic pension of agents should continue to be defined from the last six months of salary.

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The pension reform will not affect some of the specificities applicable to civil servants. The government has just made it known that the status quo should prevail on two devices to which the unions are attached. One relates to the calculation of the pension of people who worked for the State, local communities and public hospitals. The other concerns the possibilities offered to certain categories of agents to stop their professional life before 62 years – the age provided, as a rule, to assert their rights to life insurance. Orientations obviously dictated by the concern of drying potential sources of conflict, while consultations have just opened between the executive and the social partners.

It was Stanislas Guerini who brought this clarification. Invited, on October 20, from Sud Radio, the Minister of Public Transformation and Function said, in substance, that the agents’ pension will continue to be determined on the basis of the treatment received during the last six months of the career . Such a mechanism is different from that which exists among private workers: for them, the amount of the pension is defined from the average salary affected during the twenty-five best years.

m. Guerini wanted to focus on these disparities which fuel the idea that the system would be “a little unfair, basically”. “In reality, the situation is exactly the same, in the public service as in the private sector,” he stressed, with the manifest will to twist the thesis that public officials are advantaged by the rule of last six months. “Officials see their retirement calculated on the fixed part of their remuneration, without all of them [taking into account] the variable part,” said the minister. The premiums are, in fact, not taken into consideration for the basic pension, only a small fraction of them being retained to grant a so -called “additional” retirement.

To support his remarks, Mr. Guerini alluded to the last annual report of the Pension Orientation Council (COR). Posted in mid -September, this document cites studies according to which the provisions in the public are “on average slightly more favorable” than in the private sector, with “differentiated effects” depending on the case – certain officials that can be less well treated that workers in the merchant sector.

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