Who really benefits from the suspension?

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Among the workers on a construction site, André Ignoti, site manager, is delighted to be able to leave earlier thanks to the suspension of pension reform. Having started working at 17, he confides:“For me, it’s just happiness. Leaving earlier, for me, it’s beneficial, so I take it with pleasure.”

With a physical job, his colleagues also hope to be affected. Mohamed Samabaly, 50-year-old project owner, explains: “It’s only good news for us. I’ve done other jobs that are difficult, garbage collector for example. I started with that. These are jobs that are really difficult.”

Concretely, this suspension concerns people born in 1963, 1964 and some of those born in 1965. They will be able to leave at 62 years and 9 months. For subsequent generations, it is still too early to know whether they will be able to benefit from it.

Armando Vilas, 61, taxi driver, judges that the impact remains limited: “It’s not like we’re telling you three or four years. There, okay. But we’re telling you three months. That doesn’t change anything.” Christine Becquet, a music teacher due to leave for full employment at age 65, is worried about the turnaround: “I’m still very worried because of small-scale management with wet fingers, I’m fine with it. So, it was urgent, the reform. Now, we can go back, what is this management of policies?”

In total, 3.5 million people would be affected by this suspension of the reform.