the great “upheaval” within companies where employees will have to work a few more months

With the pension reform, Noël Gouteux, soon to be 60, will have to work six months longer. This employee with a long career had however planned everything for a retirement at the end of the year: “The goal was to sell the house to go to my wife’s parents’ side and my wife to ask for a transfer”. The law promulgated on Saturday April 15 by Emmanuel Macron will come into force on September 1 and many companies will have to quickly organize the postponement of the departure of certain employees.

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This executive in industrial design is now seeking a compromise with his employer: “We could arrange for me to stay in telework, but hey, I would still have to come back at least once a week. It’s complicated, my boss is having trouble finding people who do my job and therefore he doesn’t want me to leave. It suits him, six more months”.

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But other bosses, especially in the civil service, plan recruitment well in advance. At the town hall of Paris, Antoine Guillou, the socialist deputy in charge of human resources therefore fears a headache in the coming months: “It raises questions to have agents who were to retire, who ultimately will have to stay. At the same time, competitions for the arrival of new agents have already been organized and therefore new agents whose arrivals are planned. It is an upheaval of the organization at all levels, given the very short deadlines left by the law, both for agents and employers”.

And in the private sector, several bosses plan to extend the period of transmission of skills, between the employee who will retire and his replacement.