The government is taking a step forward. The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, said he was “open” to proposals from the Republicans on amendments to the pension reform, in particular on the situation of women. Asked about BFMTV, the minister said that “having different starting ages between women and men is not very fair”.
To the leader of the Les Républicains group in the Upper House, Bruno Retailleau, who proposed either a “5% premium for mothers who would have reached both a full career and the legal age, or an early departure at 63 Olivier Dussopt replied that the government was “agree and open”.
“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 of a “neutralisation effect” and will be “lost” due to the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64, agreed Olivier 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 “that from a certain age, if you have not reached the qualifying age […] 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 to the reform have called for the country to be “shut down” on March 7.
