the senior CDI is an “old recipe” which will make “less cash flow”, denounces Philippe Martinez

The secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, denounced this Tuesday on franceinfo a “old recipe” who will do “less cash flow to feed pension funds”about the senior CDI voted Monday in the Senate during the examination of the pension reform bill.

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Against the government’s opinion, the right-wing majority voted on Monday for an amendment by the rapporteurs creating a new type of permanent employment contract. “end of career” to encourage the recruitment of employees aged at least 60. With this “CDI senior”the employer would be exempt from family contributions. “We say that there is a problem of financing and the only solutions each time, it is the exemption of contributions, that is to say less income of money to feed the pension funds”denounced the trade unionist.

“Today, we invent CDIs for everything”quipped Philippe Martinez, recalling the existence of the interim CDI, which is “of precariousness”but “we put CDI in front, like that, we pretend to believe that it is indeterminate”. The trade unionist recalled that to better protect the employment of seniors, the CGT proposes to“prohibit large companies from dismissing employees from the age of 57 or 58”. With this pension reform, “we will therefore treat the employment of seniors through the small end of the telescope with the same old recipes rather than taking care of work”he finished.
The senators adopted by 202 votes against 123 an amendment to this effect, carried by the rapporteurs René-Paul Savary (LR) and Elisabeth Doineau (centrist).