Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announces a revaluation

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At 62, Djamila Boudia is just retired. Her career is not complete because she took care of her three children and regrets that it decreases her pension. “It would be more deserving to have a revalued pension. We took time to take care of them. I know that I kept them until their three years”she shares.

Improving the retirement of women by taking up part of the last negotiations with the unions is the announcement made to the social partners by the Prime Minister. Concretely, instead of the 25, the calculation of the pension would take into account the best 24 years for women with a child, 23 best years with two children. From the third, the pension would be increased by 10 %.

New rules that would raise the amount of retirement from Véronique Franzese. Employee in a personal service agency, she stopped more than 10 years to raise her four children. “I know full, people, mothers who stopped to raise their children when they are small, before they go back to school. I think it can be experienced as recognition”she says.

But a clearly insufficient boost for the CGT. “It is 1 % better for 50 % of women, those who have had children. It is not a first step, it is to let go of crumbs to refuse to consider the repeal of the pension reform 2023 and to keep most of what makes it its harshness for women in particular and for men too”Indicates Denis Gravouil, confederate secretary of the CGT.

This announcement does not appeal to the discontent of the unions. They maintain their mobilization day Thursday October 2 with calls for strike and demonstrations throughout the country.