Pension reform: Elisabeth bound meets unions Thursday

The Prime Minister will receive the leaders of the CGT, the CFDT, the CFE-CGC and the CFTC separately. The government’s project, which provides for a postponement of the legal retirement age, must be presented in mid-December.

mo12345lemonde with AFP

A few days before her presentation of the pension reform, Elisabeth Borne wishes to display her desire for consultation. The Prime Minister will receive separately, Thursday, December 8 in the morning, in Matignon, several union leaders including the bosses of the CGT Philippe Martinez and the CFDT Laurent Berger.

The government’s chef will receive Mr. Martinez at 8:30 a.m., then Mr. Berger at 9:30 a.m., according to his agenda made public Thursday evening. She will then speak with the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril and that of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier.

According to the latter, “it is a question of making a point on the first two components” of the reform, which concern the use of seniors and the arduousness on the one hand, the special regimes, the minimum retirement and the public service on the other hand. According to the trade unionist, the question of funding and that, highly conflicting, of the legal retirement age, will be less at the center of the discussion.

“There is a series of questions on which we expect answers,” added Cyril Chabanier to the France Press agency, adding that these meetings are made in parallel with bilateral meetings at the Ministry of Labor.

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Thursday’s meetings in Matignon must take place the day after a majority dinner at the Elysée in particular devoted to pensions, around President Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne, with managers of parliamentary groups and parties Renaissance, modem and horizons.

Representatives of different parliamentary groups – majority as opposition – will be received next week, before the presentation of the main lines of the reform by M bounds around December 15, added the entourage of the government’s chef.

The CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, Solidaires and FSU unions reaffirmed, on Monday evening, their opposition to “all the legal retirement age as to any increase in duration contribution “. They warned that they would decide on a “first date of unitary mobilization” in January “if the government remained arc-bouted on its project”.

Emmanuel Macron had defended during the presidential campaign a postponement of the legal age from 62 to 65 years, before evoking, once re -elected, a decline at 64 years coupled with an increase in the duration of subscription. p>

These points are currently the subject of consultation between the government and the social partners which must end on Friday. A bill must then be presented in January, before an examination in Parliament.

it remains to be seen whether, with a majority relating to the National Assembly, the Prime Minister will be able to avoid a new recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution, which makes it possible to adopt a text without a vote, unless the motion of censorship.

/Media reports cited above.