Towards a floor of 1,100 euros in retirement for full careers? In any case, this is the ambition of the government, in the wake of a campaign promise by Emmanuel Macron. “In view of inflation and the revaluation of the minimum wage, we intend to go beyond 1,100 euros, (…) around 85% of the net minimum wage”or 1,130 euros today, says Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labour, in an interview with Echoes (paid item) posted Monday, November 14.
According to the Minister of Labour, it is a question of creating “a sufficient gap between the minimum old age (953 euros for a single person today) and the minimum pension, in order to value work”. For Olivier Dussopt, this gap “will allow around 25% of new retirees – and more often women – to have a higher pension”.
On the eve of the opening of the second round of consultation on pension reform, Olivier Dussopt also details the special schemes that will be affected, citing “those of the electricity and gas industries, of the RATP or even that of the Banque de France”. According to him, the government “favors the grandfather clause, on the model of the SNCF, which closed access to the special regime for new agents”.
Olivier Dussopt has no doubt that “the question of the regime of the National Assembly and the Senate will be addressed within the framework of the parliamentary departure”but it excludes certain schemes, such as those for sailors or dancers at the Paris Opera and the Comédie Française.
Asked about the possible difference in the age from which it is possible to go on gradual retirement (60 years), the Minister notes in this interview with the Echoes that “when we shift the age of opening of rights, it is logical that the levels are shifted by as much”. This logic could apply in particular to the long career system, which allows you to retire earlier when you start working before 20 years old.
However, the Minister of Labor sees two exceptions: the government does not want “shift the age of removal of the discount which is 67 years”neither “modify the age limits which allow full retirement for insured persons who are disabled or unfit at age 62 and for disabled workers at age 55”.
Asked about the marking of the savings made, Olivier Dussopt replied that “not a euro of contribution will finance anything other than pensions”. But by promoting the employment of seniors, the reform could also generate more tax and social revenue for the other branches of Social Security, he notes.