1:51 p.m. : Hello @Dave58, the demonstration in Paris against the pension reform will be held in the southern part of the capital. The procession will leave at 2 p.m. from Place d’Italie to arrive around 7 p.m. at Place Vauban. To help you, France 3 Ile-de-France has produced the map below.
1:52 p.m. : Hello FI. Do we know the course of the demonstrations in Paris tomorrow? (For an Irish tourist who would like to avoid them if possible). Thanks.
1:05 p.m. : Hello, like today, workers with disabilities (see recognition conditions here) will be able to retire from the age of 55, if the government’s plan is adopted. The executive even provides for a small relaxation: currently, it is necessary to validate an effective contribution period (112 quarters for a person born in 1973) within a total number of validated quarters (132 quarters, including quarters in stop- illness or unemployment). Tomorrow, it will only be necessary to fulfill the first condition.
12:56 : Hello dear FTVI, I am writing to you because I cannot find the information anywhere. I am a disabled worker. Will we have to validate more quarters, is the starting age also postponed? Do you have any info? Personally, I’m almost 50 years old, I’ve always wanted to work like a valid person but I’m at my wit’s end. I want to preserve my end of life with a decent pension… Thank you!
12:16 p.m. : Hello @cyclo_ecolo, we speak precisely, in the current case, of “parametric” reform, because the bill consists of a modification of parameters (legal retirement age, contribution period, etc.) of the pension system. In the case of the previous text, defended in 2019 and buried in 2020, it was a “systemic” reform, due to a change in the nature of the system as a whole, with the transition to a universal points system .
12:15 p.m. : Hello Thibaud. Can you explain to me why everyone uses the word “reform” to speak of a rectification of the financing of social security? We are only talking about changes in duration, ages, contribution rates… Not a change in model which, like retirement by points, would justify the term “reform”!
12:05 : It’s 12:05 p.m., it’s time to take stock of the news of this Monday at midday:
• On the eve of the new day of mobilization against the pension reform, Gérald Darmanin announced the mobilization of 11,000 police forces in France tomorrow.
• Russia accuses Boris Johnson of lying when he claims that Vladimir Putin personally threatened him before the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
• The World Health Organization maintains the maximum alert level for the Covid-19 pandemic.
• The famous painting Part of a Boat by Gustave Caillebotte, considered a “National Treasure”, is now part of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
12:00 p.m. : Gérald Darmanin announced that 11,000 gendarmes and police would be mobilized tomorrow, including 4,000 in Paris. More than 10,000 police forces were deployed on the first day of mobilization, January 19, including 3,500 in Paris.
11:59 : The airline specifies that the long-haul connections will not be affected by the social movement tomorrow.
11:55 a.m. : Air France announces the cancellation of 10% of its short and medium-haul flights tomorrow, during the second day of mobilization against the pension reform.
11:43 am : Three days of commission to study a major reform is very little. For the 2020 reform, there were ten days (the commission sat on Saturday and Sunday). #DirectAN https://t.co/2SWLpRXfo7
11:43 am : As we said earlier, the examination of the amendments relating to the pension reform has begun in the Social Affairs Committee. According to its president, Renaissance MP Fadila Khattabi, the work must last until Wednesday evening, which is a shorter period than during the previous reform, recalls a journalist specializing in parliamentary life.
10:58 : Crowd in the Social Affairs Committee for the launch of the review of the #RéformeDesRetraites: several deputies deplore the altered working conditions, and request the provision of a larger room. #Retreats #DirectAN https://t.co/FBada1UNfT
10:58 : The government bill has been debated since this morning in the Social Affairs Committee at the National Assembly. The debates are already lively, while several elected officials from Nupes are asking for a larger room to discuss this text.
10:43 am : “When young people take to the streets, there is a ripple effect of the population.”
On the eve of a second day of mobilization against the pension reform, sociologist Vincent Tiberj recalls that “the last time a social movement prevented a reform from passing, it was the CPE” in 2006. The new generation, which is certainly not “not strongly connected to high school and student unions”, “has the possibility of mobilizing in a very broad way using social networks, petitions and close activism”he notes on France Inter.
10:29 : Against the pension reform, the high school organizations have called for mobilization today as well as tomorrow, a day of inter-union demonstration against the pension reform. In some high schools, blockades are already being prepared, led by students “possibly dead before retirement at work”they explain in this article.
10:09 : The boss of the CFDT also responded to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who vilified the billionaires “responsible for the misfortune of others”. “It is not the question of stigmatizing this or that”judged the union official, for whom the “debate around billionaires” is not “interesting”.
09:59 : ??️ “Listen, Madam Prime Minister, to this discontent that is expressed everywhere.”@CfdtBerger, secretary general of the @CFDT calls on @Elisabeth_Borne #ReformesDesRetraites #Les4V https://t.co/m5F6S4bhJs
09:57 : “I invite parliamentarians not to go headlong in postponing the legal age to 64 because it is rejected by a vast majority of employees.”
On France 2, the number one of the CFDT spoke about the arrival of the pension reform in the National Assembly today. And while Elisabeth Borne reaffirmed yesterday on franceinfo that the postponement of the legal age of departure to 64 was not “more negotiable”Laurent Berger believes that “the Prime Minister cannot remain deaf to this tremendous mobilization that has been created”.
09:07 : It’s 9:03 am, it’s time to take stock of the news of this Monday morning:
• The pension reform bill arrives today at the National Assembly, with 7,000 amendments tabled for consideration in committee.
• Renault and Nissan have just confirmed that the first will reduce its share in the capital of the second to 15% (against 43.4% currently).
• Philips announced the elimination by 2025 of 6,000 jobs after losses related to a recall of defective respirators.
• Two weeks before their shock against Bayern Munich in the Champions League, PSG conceded a draw against Reims (1-1) in Ligue 1 last night.
08:52 : Project and counter-projects. Faced with the pension reform envisaged by the government, opponents of the text defend other solutions than the postponement of the legal retirement age. We return in this article to the main proposals of the left and the unions, with each of the advantages and disadvantages.
08:42 : “Almost one in two French people trust trade unions and less than 30% trust the executive.”?️ @jdlevy, deputy director @harrisint_fr #Retraites #ReformesDesRetraites https://t.co/ ZvEE5bqc4q
08:41 : Beyond their positions on the pension reform, the French do not really have confidence in the institutions involved in this debate, according to the deputy director of Harris Interactive, Jean-Daniel Lévy, guest this morning on France 2.
07:26 : Although in favor of the bill, the deputies of the majority have also tabled amendments to adjust and “to improve” this highly contested text. We return in this article to what these 178 amendments contain, from the tightening of the “senior index” for companies to new rights for caregivers and volunteers.
07:29 : Before the mobilization in the street tomorrow, the deputies are today kicking off the debates in committee on the pension reform project. They have until Wednesday at 8 p.m. to vote on the approximately 7,000 amendments tabled mainly by Nupes.