A final meeting of the social partners is scheduled for Monday in an attempt to tear off an agreement

The very distant positions between employers and the unions make an agreement unlikely.

After four months of consultations, the social partners must put an end point on Monday, June 23, with or without agreement, at the pensions conclave. The last working session, on June 17, ended on an extension torn off on the wire to avoid failure. One more in a discussion started on February 27 and which was to stop originally on May 28.

“I am quite pessimistic about the results of this negotiation”Looked Christelle Thieffine, negotiator of the CFE-CGC. Eric Chevée speaks of “Red lines or even scarlets” For its camp, the CPME (employers of small and medium -sized enterprises). Patrick Martin, president of Medef, even said “Very reserved” On the participation Monday of his body, the main representative of employers. Only the CFDT sees a glow. “There remains a session to try to see if a landing is possible”Has described Yvan Ricordeau, its negotiator, who does not want to talk about crash. His number one, Marylise Léon, mentioned to AFP “Social advances that one must be able to materialize”.

The employers and the unions, several of which have left negotiations from the start (FO, CGT, such as U2P in employers), have positivery far away which prevent an agreement. Beyond the retirement age, which the MEDEF wants to maintain at 64, the social partners had a hard time agreeing on the arduousness, the age of cancellation of the discount or the contributions.

The end of the “conclave” is also a moment of truth for François Bayrou, who launched this new format of discussion after a compromise established with the socialists to avoid a government’s censorship. And the Prime Minister, who had undertaken to present the conclusions before the Parliament, warned that thea reform of 2023 “will apply” In the absence of agreement between the social partners.