The government is “open” to proposals from Republicans on amendments to the pension reform, in particular on the situation of women, said Sunday the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, two days before the examination of the text in the Senate, controlled by the right.
The boss of the Les Républicains group in the upper house, Bruno Retailleau, proposed in particular on Saturday in Le Parisien either a “surcharge of 5% for mothers who have reached both a full career and the legal age, or a departure anticipated at age 63”.
“We agree and are open”, replied Olivier Dussopt on Sunday on BFMTV, explaining that “having differentiated starting ages between women and men is not very fair”.
“In the text, the project that we have to improve and continue concerns the situation of women who, having had children, reach retirement age (…) with quarters validated for maternity” who will suffer from a “neutralisation effect” and will be “lost” due to the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64, agreed Mr. Dussopt.
“We can find solutions”, he continued, while the reform must be examined from Tuesday by the senators, ten days after heated debates in the Assembly.
The government, he argued, is considering, for example, “telling yourself that from a certain age, if you have not reached the age of entitlement (…) but your career is already complete, the quarters that you continue to do give rise to a premium”, without specifying the rate.
For their part, the unions committed against the reform have called for the country to be “stopped” on March 7.
02/26/2023 15:22:54 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
