The pension orientation council, the CRO, presented its finalized report on Thursday. But far from making consensus, it causes the unions of the unions.
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A pre-report of the Pension Orientation Council (COR) had leaked a few days earlier, it was finalized and validated Thursday, June 12. While there are more than 6 billion euros in 2025 and that the pensions deficit will continue to widen in the years to come, the COR showed that the decline in legal age is the criterion that makes it possible to balance the system while increasing the wealth of the country.
As always in this type of report, the horn formulated hypotheses according to the parameters, and among the simulations, there was that of a decrease of age up to 66 and a half by 2070 which set fire to the powder. The unions and in particular the CGT asked that this option be withdrawn from the final report. This was not completely the case, even if the report was amended.
The members of the horn, and in particular its president, the economist Gilbert this, reputed to be close to Emmanuel Macron, argue that these simulations in no way constitute reform proposals, but that they have a simple educational vocation. But it didn’t take more for the controversy to be launched.
This subject of age is discussed at the moment in the retirement conclave which is coming to the very last straight line, since the penultimate meeting was held on June 12, the last will arrive on June 17. The tension is therefore at its maximum. If the CGT and FO have slammed the door of this instance, the CFDT as well as the CFTC and the CFE-CGC, which have remained, seek by all means to move employers on the legal age of 64 years. But it is lost, employers do not want to give up on it and there is little chance that by June 17, it takes a step in this sense.
This does not mean that any agreement is impossible. Without obtaining a return to 62 or even 63 years, the CFDT seeks to have arrangements of the Macron reform of 2023, in particular on a better management of arduousness, its workhorse. It wants to obtain repairs for workers exposed to certain arduous criteria, such as carrying heavy loads, or mechanical vibrations. The CFDT wants them to be able to leave earlier by having a full -rate retreat. For the moment, the employers refuse, it is the showdown.
