Seniors who are unemployed and find a less well-paid job than the previous one could continue to receive part of their indemnity for “compensate for the loss of earnings”said the Minister of Labor.
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This is a way to encourage seniors to return to work. Those who are unemployed and find a less well-paid job than the previous one could continue to receive part of their indemnity for “compensate for the loss of earnings”suggested the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, in an interview with the Sunday newspaperpublished Saturday October 8
The low employment rate of seniors is often brandished as an argument against the government’s pension reform, which plans to raise the retirement age to 64 or 65 years. “Our economic system does not have a culture of employment for seniors”, Judge Olivier Dussopt. He also points the finger “devices which can be perceived as encouragement, for employers, to separate themselves from seniors”as “the maximum duration of unemployment compensation, which, from the age of 55, increases from 24 to 36 months”. Olivier Dussopt wishes “also promote phased retirement and combined retirement”.
Otherwise, “the creation of a professional employment index for seniors, on the model of that for gender equality, will be part of the discussions” that the Minister will have with the social partners in the coming weeks. He also mentions “incentive mechanisms, for example in the form of exemptions from social security contributions” for companies.
On the question of raising the legal retirement age, which all the unions oppose, “this will be to be agreed, but we need to raise the average age of departure”he insists, while contemplating“introduce a review clause”who “may be a way to take a date in the future to take stock”.